2013-08-07 | permalink

India’s farmers not embracing biotech Brinjal as Bangladesh

The Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) has developed four kinds of GM brinjal, based on local varieties and with the assistance of scientists at Cornell University and USAID. After seven years of testing in greenhouses and fields, BARI has submitted its products for government approval, which should arrive soon.
In India, since Bt brinjal, was stopped from being commercialised, the debate has taken a turn. Even field trial research can be conducted only after obtaining a ‘No Objection Certificate’ from State governments.

• Truth About Trade & Technology: India’s farmers wait as Bangladesh embraces biotech Brinjal
• Business Line: India: time to shed our prejudices against GM