The biotechnology industry's annual report "Global Status of Commercialised Biotech/GM Crops: 2012" by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA), which hail

Australians have achieved a major breakthrough in controlling dengue and hope to transfer this not-for-profit technology to India, which is recording some of the highest number of dengue cases in the world.

The Eliminate Dengue Research Programme (EDRP) has found that by transferring the Wolbachia bacteria, found in the common fruit fly, into the dengue mosquito called the aedes aegypti, the latter’s ability to transmit the dengue virus gets substantially reduced.

Strange as it might seem to urbanites, birds don't flock to the cotton fields of Heggadadevanakote. That's mainly because of the invasion of Bt cotton - birds have lost their space, symbolizing the crisis we're facing.

Unsustainable technologies are being pushed through, and simple methods backed by traditional knowledge are under threat. Small and marginal farmers are led up the garden path of higher yields by the genetically modified crops lobby. The next government should see they don't yield to the false propaganda of GM MNCs who have overt and covert spokespersons well entrenched in the system. It shouldn't kowtow to a few MNCs trying to tighten their stranglehold on agriculture.

China, the world's largest food consumer, led developing countries in growing biotech crops last year, according to a report by an industry organization.

Global acreage under biotech or genetically modified (GM) crops continued to expand in 2012, but the pace was a bit slow than previous year.

The National Biodiversity Authority has filed the country’s first ever bio-piracy criminal case against US agrochemicals giant Monsanto and its Indian partner Mahyco on the Bt brinjal issue in a Ka