Shenghui Wang, an economist with the World Bank and one of the authors of the study on Bt cotton in China, on the future of the technology in India and China
Malwa: This is Punjab's cotton country. Yields here were some of the highest in India till 1992-93, when the region reported its first major infestatin of the American bollworm. Punjab accounted for
Pakistan swarmed: Pakistani crops are facing the risk of widespread locust attack and spread of Leishmaniasis disease. This is because the country's Plant Protection Department (PPD) cannot undertake
the more virulent the pathogen, the less fertile it is, Australian scientists have discovered, showing that there is often a genetic trade-off between ferocity and fecundity in fungi that infect
khejri (Prosopis cineraria) trees are well equipped to withstand the parched climate of Rajasthan. But they are becoming easy prey for hungry beetles. A recent survey by the Arid Forest Research
