ICAR “shielding errant officials” by delaying the report
In a damning indictment of the way some Bt cotton varieties were developed and commercialised in the country, a committee headed by Prof. S.K. Sopory, Vice-Chancellor of JNU, found that indigenous Bikaneri Nerma (BN) Bt cotton variety was contaminated by a gene patented by Monsanto.
Having found lapses in the “BNLA106 event”, the committee has held as “invalid” the data obtained from bio-safety studies and field trials with BNBt as these were conducted with material that contained Monsanto’s “MON531 event”.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/panel-finds-lapses-development-%E2%80%98first-indigenous-bt-cotton%E2%80%99
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/taxonomy/term/29914
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/hindu-new-delhi
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/bt-cotton
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/indian-council-agricultural-research-icar
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/monsanto
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/biosafety
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/biotechnology
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/gm-crops
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ministry-agriculture
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agriculture
