RC recommendation on 27 pesticides
<p>This report is on the review of 66 pesticides under the Chairmanship of Dr. Anupam Varma. The main parameters emphasized by the Committee to review the products were uses approved under the Insecticides
<p>This report is on the review of 66 pesticides under the Chairmanship of Dr. Anupam Varma. The main parameters emphasized by the Committee to review the products were uses approved under the Insecticides
WITH state governments, the Planning Commission and two agricultural universities tasked to conduct research on Bt brinjal cautioning the Centre against immediate commercial release of the GM crop, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to take a middle-of-theroad approach.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has stepped in to make it clear that Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh will not have the last word on the introduction of Bt Brinjal or any GM (genetically modified) food.
Worried over rising food prices hitting the common man, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government may roll out its flagship food security programme for an extended below poverty line (BPL) list.
LUCKNOW: Here's something for agriculture skeptics to chew on. If government data from Uttar Pradesh's agriculture department is to be believed, the National Food Security Mission (NFSM) in the state is well on its way to becoming a "second green revolution".
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Wednesday urged agricultural scientists to double their efforts to remove all misgivings on genetically modified (GM) crops from the minds of policy makers and the public.
Days after Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh overruled experts to put on hold the release of Bt brinjal and said biotech research could not be left to the private sector, Food and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar today said that genetically modified crops could solve the country
Food and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar is firm in his belief that genetically-modified crops could solve the country
EVEN as agriculture minister Sharad Pawar accepted that the last word on Bt Brinjal was that of environment minister Jairam Ramesh, he made a strong case for genetically modified crops. Arguing in favour of the GM crops, Mr Pawar said that it could solve the country
To say that agriculture minister Sharad Pawar is an embattled man is an understatement. Food prices have been on a relentless upward march in the past few months, and everybody is blaming him for that. The Prime Minister himself seems in no mood to cut Pawar any slack for the food price increase, and there are rumours that he might be asked to move to another ministry.
SHAKEEL AHMED Congress Spokesman (on February 9)