No decision was taken at the first meeting of experts that deliberated on issues relating to the moratorium on the commercial release of Genetically Modified Bt Brinjal.
The experts were invited by the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) for their views on the controversial issue.
Pawan Kumar, a farmer of Ladwa village in Kurukshetra district of Haryana, who owns 14 acre of agricultural land, has planted onions and capsicum after harvesting the wheat crop.
Move aimed to address mismatch in demand and supply at urban centres
To address the issue of vegetable shortage at urban centres across the country, the Centre plans to have clusters for vegetable cultivation and storage.
Food inflation for the week ending March 19 came down to single digit at 9.5 per cent from 10.05 per cent a week ago as prices of cereals, wheat, vegetables, onions and egg, meat and fish eased.
According to data released by the government today, food articles showed a decline of 0.50 per cent during the week with prices of cereals declining by -0.23 per cent while that of wheat falling by -1.4
Encouraged by the overwhelming response to the Indo-Israel Centre for Excellence in Vegetables at Gharaunda near Karnal, Haryana government has decided to open 12 more such regional centres of excellence in the state, all in different districts.
Of these, 11 centres will be opened on land owned by farmers.
Thanks to a Delhi High Court order, senior law officers of the Central as well as Delhi government will soon be seen buying vegetables across the Capital.
The court, on Wednesday, directed senior government lawyers to fetch vegetables from different mandis across Delhi, so that they could be taken to as many as three laboratories for pesticide tests.
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday set up a committee of lawyers and tasked it to collect vegetable and fruit samples for simultaneous testing at a Delhi Government laboratory as well as one certified by National Board for Testing and Calibration for presence of residue of pesticides.
A Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna directed the committee co
