Draft Seeds Bill, 2019
The revised draft Seeds Bill 2019, which the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare placed in the public domain recently for suggestions and comments, seems to be a watered down version of a draft
Seeds
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Beware the modified wolf
Will bureaucrats choose to throw farmers and ecology to the mercy of multinational corporations by preparing the way for cultivation of transgenic cotton in India?
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Fertiliser from waste
Indigenous technology to produce biofertiliser and protein-rich animal feed from maize waste has shown promising results with a Secunderabad-based company succeeding in marketing products based on
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Dose of phosphorus
The introduction of high-yielding varieties of seeds and the increase in cropping intensity has resulted in a significant rise in the extent of phosphorus removal by crops. Fertiliser phosphorus is,
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Follow up
Monsanto, the agribusiness multinational, has ultimately agreed not to market sterile seeds. The introduction of sterile seeds is a contentious issue that was threatening to jeopardise the rights
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New seeder
A seeder, which can simultaneous sow and provide manure to the crops, has been developed. The machine, put together by the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, has two ground wheels, two skids and a
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ORDER ON BIOTECHNOLOGY
An Iowa, USA, seed merchant has legally challenged the US Patent and Trademark Office, saying it erred in granting patents on modifi cations to plants such as corn, soyabeans and cotton. The
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Blessed are the meek
for they keep the rainforests' biodiversity high
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NOTICE ISSUED
The Supreme Court has issued notice to the Union government on a public interest litigation challenging the permission given for field trials of Mon santo's genetically modified Bollgard cotton
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Suicidal growth
The debate over terminator technology takes a new turn with the discovery of 36 sterility patent claims by public and private institutes the world over
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Sound and fury
Monsanto talks too much. Misinformed activists rush in to burn fields in protest against the company. And India s government authorities, sitting in smug silence, do little to clear the confusion. The science of biotechnology gets a bad name