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 No more GM in Kolhapur fields [1]

University bans field trials

THE Maharashtra agriculture university announced it would no longer allow field trials of GM food crops in its field at Kolhapur. The move came in the wake of a protest in March by hundreds of farmers and citizens against an open-air field test of GM corn seeds, produced by seed major Monsanto. The protest led to the constitution of a committee, which resulted in the decision of the ban. The university

Publication Date: 
30/05/2009
Down to Earth [2]
Tags:
Agriculture [3], Agricultural Research [4], Seeds [5], Food Crops [6], GM Crops [7], Farmers [8], Maharashtra [9], Kolhapur (D) [10], Monsanto [11]

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