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Bt eggplants (brinjal) in India
Since 1999 GENET collects and distributes information on various topics in the field of genetic engineering in agriculture, food production and health. With this "Special Topic: Bt Brinjal in India" GENET aims at providing an overview about the debate on development and approval of Bt brinjal in this country, based on our archives.
2010-07-26 | permalink
Bt brinjal needs much further testing in India
The details available in the public domain so far do not make for a thriller or the agro-apocalypse scenario that is getting people worked up from the Lok Sabha to the gram sabha level in India. So what is it about Bt brinjal that bothers the farmers, scientists, policy makers and the Bt crop producers alike? The one-word answer to that question is ”impact”. The impact of introducing a genetically modified food crop in the agro-ecosystem has neither been independently quantified nor calibrated.
2010-07-26 | permalink
Bt brinjal needs much further testing in India
The details available in the public domain so far do not make for a thriller or the agro-apocalypse scenario that is getting people worked up from the Lok Sabha to the gram sabha level in India. So what is it about Bt brinjal that bothers the farmers, scientists, policy makers and the Bt crop producers alike? The one-word answer to that question is ”impact”. The impact of introducing a genetically modified food crop in the agro-ecosystem has neither been independently quantified nor calibrated.
