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Tinkering with crops [1]

More testing has to be done on the new variety of brinjal and on any vegetable that may be in the process of being genetically modified.OVER three decades ago I was asked, as were other District Magistrates and Deputy Commissioners in the country, to help the agricultural officers in our districts to promote two new varieties of rice, which were called High Yielding Varieties, or HYV, among farmer

Publication Date: 
26/03/2010
Bhaskar Ghose [2]
Frontline (Chennai) [3]
Tags:
Seeds [4], Rice [5], Wheat [6], Vegetables [7], Genetic Engineering [8], Frontline (Chennai) [3], Bhaskar Ghose [2], Brinjal [9]

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[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/seeds
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rice
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wheat
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/vegetables
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/genetic-engineering
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/brinjal