Agriculture

 GM field trials now need panchayat nod

seed companies testing genetically modified (gm) crops will now have to seek permission from village panchayats and state agriculture universities before carrying out field trials. Responding to

Publication Date: 
30/01/2007
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Agriculture, Plant Breeding, Seeds, Basmati Rice, Industry, Genetic Engineering, Legislation, Panchayats, India
Agriculture

 Up against GM

October 2006

Publication Date: 
30/01/2007
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Agriculture, Plant Breeding, Conflicts, Genetic Engineering, India, Haryana, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh
Agriculture

 Chhattisgarh proactive in checking illegal BT rice trials

chhattisgarh became the first state to actively initiate action against biosafety violations in trials of genetically modified Bt rice in India. Besides ordering an enquiry into the matter, the

Publication Date: 
30/12/2006
ALOK PRAKASH PUTUL
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Agriculture, Agricultural Research, Rice, Conflicts, Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering, India, Chhattisgarh
Industry

 Poor regulators do not a rich country make

IN this past month, farmer associations in Haryana and Tamil Nadu have located and burnt field trials for genetically modified Bt rice. In Chhattisgarh the state government has stopped similar trials

Publication Date: 
14/12/2006
Sunita Narain
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Agriculture, Pesticides, Rice, Food Standards, Health Effects, Pesticide Industry, Conflicts, Finance, Industry, Science, Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering, Research, Information, India
Agriculture

 SC imposes ban on field trials of GM crops

the Supreme Court of India, for the first time, on September 22, 2006, issued an interim verdict banning all field trials of genetically modified (gm) crops in the country and slammed its regulatory

Publication Date: 
30/10/2006
Sourav Mishra
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Agriculture, Cotton, Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering, Supreme Court, India
Agriculture

 EC stops import of US long grain rice

Following the us government's announcement that an illegal and untested genetically modified strain had contaminated its conventional long-grain rice, the European Commission has stopped its

Publication Date: 
29/09/2006
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Agriculture, Rice, Food Adulteration, Trade, Exports, Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering, European Union (EU)
Food Policy

 Sri Lanka regulates GM food import

the Sri Lankan government gazetted regulations for the import of genetically modified (gm) food on August 3, 2006, making labelling and pre-import approvals mandatory. The rules will be enforced

Publication Date: 
14/09/2006
Fiezal Samath
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Food Policy, Food Standards, Food Process Industry, Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering, Legislation, Sri Lanka
India

  Genetically modified technology is absolutely price neutral

Graham Brookes, an agricultural economist and director of the UK based PG Economics limited, a research and consultancy organisation, has authored a study on genetically modified gm crops. He talks to

Publication Date: 
14/04/2006
Sourav Mishra
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Agriculture, Genetic Resources, Technology, Genetic Engineering, Argentina, India
Environment

 Adept at adaptation

Human genes are evolving with changing environment

Publication Date: 
14/04/2006
Kirtiman Awasthi
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Environment, Life Science, Genetic Engineering
Agriculture

 EU ministers clash on GMOs Again

European Union (eu) farm ministers once again revealed their long-standing rift over genetically modified ( gm ) food. At a recent meet in Luxembourg, proposals to approve new gm imports and to

Publication Date: 
29/11/2005
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