End the Bt brinjal impasse
by B.G. Verghese

When he would come home from his modest half-acre farm after sundown, Ramesh Pradhan wouldn

A TUSSLE is on in the government over where to park the National Biotechnology Authority of India. Environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday said that his department or the health ministry were better suited to be the nodal agency for the autonomous authority.

PM Unhappy With Public Spat Over Bt

PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh, who normally opts for the path of least resistance, decided to go along with the view that the introduction of Bt brinjal should wait till safety tests are completed and consensus developed on the crop.

Ensuring quality: Organic farmers will soon get certified by the Tamil Nadu Organic Certification Department, which will help them get a good price.

COIMBATORE: More than 50,000 acres across the State have been brought under organic certification programme, thanks to Tamil Nadu Organic Certification Department's efforts.

One of the claims Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh made to justify his freeze on Bt brinjal was that the Bt gene would

WITH state governments, the Planning Commission and two agricultural universities tasked to conduct research on Bt brinjal cautioning the Centre against immediate commercial release of the GM crop, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to take a middle-of-theroad approach.

Even as activists fight to keep genetically modified food off Indian menus, with Bt cotton constituting around 90 per cent of India