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 SC imposes ban on field trials of GM crops [1]

the Supreme Court of India, for the first time, on September 22, 2006, issued an interim verdict banning all field trials of genetically modified (gm) crops in the country and slammed its regulatory mechanism. This means that the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (geac)

Publication Date: 
30/10/2006
Sourav Mishra [2]
Down to Earth [3]
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Agriculture [4], Cotton [5], Biotechnology [6], Genetic Engineering [7], Supreme Court [8], India [9]
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