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 Activists, exporters protest Bt rice trials in India [1]

ON the surface, it was a typical fortnight in India's debate on genetically modified (gm) crops. Right after the International Rice Congress in Delhi promoted the benefits of transgenic rice, a plot of Bt rice was burnt in Haryana amid biosafety fears, and a complaint was registered in eastern Uttar Pradesh (see box: Nailing GM). Burning of trial gm crops is not new in India, be it activists burning

Publication Date: 
29/11/2006
Sourav Mishra [2]
Down to Earth [3]
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Agricultural Research [4], Rice [5], GM Crops [6], India [7]
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