Even as a laboratory report has confirmed that farmers in Maharashtra’s Akola district had sown the banned Herbicide Tolerant Bt (HT Bt) cotton by way of protest last month, activists of the Shetkari ...

Nagpur: Laboratory tests at the Central Institute for Cotton Research (CICR) have confirmed that the cotton seeds sowed by Akot farmers last month were herbicide tolerant (HT Bt). The samples sent by ...

A group of officers from the state agriculture department on Tuesday visited houses of farmers in Maharashtra’s Akoli Jahagir village to collect samples of seeds of genetically-modified (GM) HT Bt ...

WASHINGTON, DC, US — First commercially introduced for major field crops in 1996, adoption of genetically engineered (GE) seed varieties came quickly and currently is over 90% for corn, cotton and ...

Yavatmal: Cotton growers in Yavatmal district will violate the government’s restrictions on HT Bt cotton and launch an agitation from May 1 to press for their demands, said Shetkari Sanghatana ...

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Members of the National Seed Association of India (NSAI) have said that there is a need to bring in a uniform system of seed licencing in the country by adopting a one-country-one-seed licence policy.

Mumbai: The Maharashtra government on Thursday decided to recommend an investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the illegal sale of herbicide-tolerant (HT) Bt cotton seeds in ...