NAGAPATTINAM: Organic farming is the way forward to battle the nature-induced and human-made vagaries of the tail-end of the Delta. This was reiterated at a one-day seminar on organic farming organised jointly by the Department of Agricuture and Krishi Vigyan Kendra at its premises here at Sikkal recently.

It is now 42 years since the term "Green Revolution" was coined by Dr William Gaud of the USA to describe advances in production arising from productivity improvement. Even in 1968 I had concluded that if farm ecology and economics go wrong, nothing else would go right in agriculture.

To justify his indefinite moratorium on Bt Brinjal, Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh yesterday claimed that

* Experts say Bt technology will eventually be introduced

New Delhi: The government on Tuesday decided to put the commercial cultivation of Bt brinjal on hold, bowing to protests from activists, resistance from opposition as well as Congress governments and suspicions about the genetically modified crops.

Citing a lack of scientific consensus and the absence of any

Moratorium Restricted To Commercial Launch Of Mahyco

BHUBANESWAR: As the entire nation awaits the decision of Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh on the issue of Bt brinjal, the United Coalition Against Genetic Engineering (Uncage), Orissa, today urged him to reject the entry of genetically modified organism

With RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) spearheading a campaign against introduction of Bt brinjal and Sangh boss Mohan Bhagwat too speaking out against it, BJP-ruled Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh went the Uttarakhand way today, announcing a ban on commercial cultivation of Bt brinjal.