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House panel report on GM crop draws flak [1]

New Delhi Scientists, farmer bodies and industry associations alike have slammed the parliamentary panel on agriculture for suggesting a probe into the go-ahead for commercial cultivation of Bt brinjal, India's first genetically-modified food crop. They have also criticised its recommendation for a ban on the field trials of such crops,terming the report as “unscientific and partisan”.

The Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) had approved commercial cultivation of Bt brinjal in 2009, but the then environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, had put an indefinite moratorium on the decision following protests.

Publication Date: 
13/08/2012
Banikinkar Pattanayak [2], Sandip Das [3]
Financial Express (New Delhi) [4]
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GM Crops [5], Bt Brinjal [6], Farmers [7], Scientists [8], Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF) [9], Biotechnology [10], Indian Council Of Agricultural Research (ICAR) [11], Health Effects [12], Environmental Health [13], Ministry Of Agriculture [14], Greenpeace [15], United States Of America (US) [16], Canada [17], India [18], Agriculture [19]

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