Africa agriculture trade monitor 2023
The 2023 Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor, a flagship publication of AKADEMIYA2063 and the International Food Policy Research Institute, provides an overview of trade in agriculture in Africa, including
Cotton
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GM crops: Here to stay
The Indian government is dead keen on GM crops. But what about a policy first?
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Snowbolling
Illegal variants of GM seeds are threatening the future of cotton in India The biotech revolution in India has turned into a nightmare. At least in Gujarat, where cotton farmers are happily using illegal
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Pink bollworm a potent threat to GM cotton
The quest to promote Bt Bacillus thuringiensis cotton may suffer a serious setback with scientists from the US based University of Arizona discovering that the pink bollworm one of the most destructive agricultural pests harbours three genetic mutat
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Bt by Bt assessment
On November 10, 2002, people wearing Bollgard caps visited cotton farmer R Narsimha Reddy at his home in Aleru, a village in Nalgonda, Andhra Pradesh. Bollgard cotton Bt cotton is Monsanto s proprietary gene technology developed to defend the pest pro
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Duping pests
Pesticides are not the only way
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A dash of mustard
After Bt cotton, it s now GM mustard; where is our scientific community?
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Field report
Bt cotton farmers in Karnataka are an insecure and confused lot, and neither the government, nor Mahyco or the anti Mahyco groups are any help at all
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A sticky label
US biotech industry gears up to play dirty in Europe
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Gearing up for Bt cotton
Farmers ready to sow GM cotton in Andhra Pradesh
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GM bollworms on the anvil?
Insects have been modified to destroy own species