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An overview of Bt cotton experience in Karnataka: 2002 to 2009

  • 01/11/2010

Bt Cotton (insect-resistant transgenic cotton) is often portrayed as that technological revolution in Indian cotton cultivation which has changed the cotton scenario in India and pushed it to higher yields to make India the second largest producer of Cotton in the world. This brief report seeks to analyse the major developments with regard to Bt Cotton cultivation in the state of Karnataka in South India. Karnataka