User: indiatogether Topic: Agriculture
Category: GM Crops
Last updated: May 22 2013 22:37 IST RSS 2.0
 
1 to 20 of 9,823    
Top of Everest on one leg and sheer grit for Arunima Sinha 22.5.2013 DNA: Popular News
26-year-old becomes first Indian amputee to scale the mountain.
Also found in: [+]
Make Bt cotton tech available to us, small seed firms tell AP 22.5.2013 HBL: Agri-biz
Small and medium seed companies in Andhra Pradesh are up in arms. About 500 such companies feel that they are losing out the cottonseed business to the big players. Unlike in the traditi...
Also found in: [+]
‘We have an open mind on GM crops’ 22.5.2013 The Hindu: Today's Paper
‘We have an open mind on GM crops’
Also found in: [+]
Illegal GM cotton spreads across India (Cached) 22.5.2013 Down to Earth
In a replay of Bt cotton saga, Monsanto's Roundup Ready Flex is being grown in at least three states without clearance GM cotton has proved to be a grim experience for farmers as erratic rains and high costs of cultivation have resulted in poor returns. This appears to be a prime cause of the wave of farmer suicides that have touched nearly 9,000 since 2005 (Photo by Amit Shanker) No alternate text on picture! - define alternate text in image properties Homepage Teaser: In a replay of Bt cotton saga, Monsanto's Roundup Ready Flex is being grown in at least three states without clearance ...
Also found in: [+]
BRAI Bill referred to Parliamentary panel (Cached) 22.5.2013 New Kerala: India News
New Delhi, May 21, : The contentious Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) Bill which was tabled in the budget session of the parliament by Union Science & Technology Minister Jaipal Reddy has been sent to the Standing Committee of Science and Technology, Environment and Forests for reviewing and recommendations.
Also found in: [+]
Action sought against those supplying substandard fertilizer 22.5.2013 Hindu: National
Hanubalu Hobli Growers’ Association has urged the Agriculture Department to take stern action against those supplying substandard fertiliser and duping farmers. Compensation ...
Also found in: [+]
Assistant professor arrested for wife’s murder 22.5.2013 Hindu: National
An assistant professor at the Mandya Institute of Medical Sciences was arrested on Tuesday on the charge of killing his wife at Kallahalli, off Bangalore-Mysore Highway, in Mandya district on May...
Also found in: [+]
BJP to organise ‘jail bharo’ agitation on May 27 22.5.2013 Hindu: National
The former State president of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the former Deputy Chief Minister K.S. Eshwarappa has said that the party will organise ‘jail bharo’ agitation on May 27 in protest again...
Also found in: [+]
‘We have an open mind on GM crops’ 22.5.2013 Hindu: National
Minister of State for Agriculture Krishna Byre Gowda has said that the department has an open mind on genetically modified (GM) crops, and it is left to farmers to make informed choices.He...
Also found in: [+]
Unapproved Bt cotton seeds sold in Vidarbha 22.5.2013 DNA: Top News
Illegal sale of the latest variant causes panic among farmers in the region, activists across India.
Also found in: [+]
Yeddyurappa, Nirani’s pleas dismissed 22.5.2013 Hindu: Bangalore
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday dismissed petitions filed by the former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa challenging the proceedings initiated against him before the Special Lokayukta Court in...
Empowering hearing impaired persons with skills 22.5.2013 Hindu: Bangalore
A four-day event focussing on empowering and building leadership skills in persons with hearing impairments got under way here on Tuesday.Inchara 2013, organised by the Association of Peopl...
Also found in: [+]
'Government will crack down on artificial fertiliser scarcity' 22.5.2013 newindianexpress.com
Also found in: [+]
'Karnataka has open mind on GM crops' 22.5.2013 Latest News
Nearly 90% of farmers in Karnataka are using Bt cotton seeds
Also found in: [+]
New ministers get going in Karnataka (Cached) 21.5.2013 TOI: Bangalore Times
New ministers get going in Karnataka
Also found in: [+]
Karnataka govt has open mind on GM crops 21.5.2013 deccanherald.com
Karnataka govt has open mind on GM crops
Also found in: [+]
Karnataka govt has open mind on GM crops 21.5.2013 Latest News
Karnataka government has an open mind on the issue of genetically modified crops, and favours giving options for farmers to make informed choices, Agriculture Minister Krishna Byre Gowda said today. He said Bt cotton, first introduced in the ...
Also found in: [+]
Vidarbha experiment with desi cotton to be extended to 10 states (Cached) 21.5.2013 Down to Earth

CICR says it got yields as high as 25 to 30 quintals per acre using high density plantation of non-Bt cotton varieties

cottonCICR principal scientist M V Venugopalan at a Wardha farm checking on HDPS Desi cotton project

Also found in: [+]
PHOTOS: The real villains of Jalna (Cached) 21.5.2013 Rediff: News
The struggle for water in the drought-hit Jalna district of Maharashtra through eyes of rediff.com's Uttam Ghosh.
Also found in: [+]
Engineered bacteria use hydrogen, carbon dioxide to produce electricity (Cached) 20.5.2013 New Kerala: World News
Washington, May 19 : Researchers including one of Indian origin have engineered a strain of electricity-producing bacteria that can grow using hydrogen gas as its sole electron donor and carbon dioxide as its sole source of carbon.
Also found in: [+]
1 to 20 of 9,823