Agriculture minister Gurmeet Singh Khudian has asked the department to make efforts for increasing area under the crop and ...

the ministry will establish 720 demonstration sites of Bt cotton in the counties where the none-BT seeds will be grown. “These demonstration sites will be used for teaching farmers and extension ...

Nagpur: Farmers from across Vidarbha, especially Yavatmal, have urged the govt to make available the latest ...

He used to plant ten seeds in a hole. Now, two cut it because of higher germination. It also helps that the Bt cotton matures way faster than the conventional one. Irene Karimi says that in half a ...

Elmore’s "Seed Money: Monsanto’s Past and Our Food Future" does not read like a sanctioned history of Monsanto. Nor does it sizzle with prosecutorial zeal. Govt keeps Bt cotton price unchanged ...

This is in line with the government’s rationale that while Monsanto has patent rights to the Bt cotton gene, once it is introduced into a plant seed, the product becomes subject to the Plant ...

Under the fresh norm, royalty for the new genetically modified (GM) traits was capped at 10 percent of the maximum sale price of BT cotton seeds for the first 5 years. Eligible seed firms get ...