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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.
2010-01-14 | permalink
Discussion on Bt brinjal hits the road of West Bengal (India)
Scientists and farmers came out with suggestions on various aspects of the issue and submitted their written plea to the minister. Most of them were against cultivation of the genetically modified (GM) crop. Some scientists opined that there is nothing wrong in it but the government should be more cautious. While Ramesh was listening to the views, protestors took to the streets with posters and placards saying ’BT brinjal go back’. Towards the end of the discussion, the minister himself came out and pacified the protectors who were demonstrating on the road.
- Indian Express, India (13.01.2010): Discussion on Bt brinjal hits the road
- The Telegraph, India (14.01.2010): Brinjal fire fries minister
- The Hindu, India (13.01.2010): Protests mark first public consultative meeting on Bt brinjal
- ThaiIndian News, Thailand (13.01.2010): West Bengal farmers, experts oppose Bt Brinjal
- Terraviva EUROPE (19.01.2010): India Holds Public Meetings on GM Food Crop
2010-01-13 | permalink
Indian Environment Minister to hold meetings on Bt brinjal across the nation
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh will from Wednesday hold a series of public meetings across the country on the controversial Bt brinjal which was cleared by the country’s bio-technology regulator last year for its commercial cultivation.
- Press Trust of India, India (11.01.2010): Ramesh to hold meet on Bt brinjal across the nation
- Indian Express, India (11.01.2010): City scientists, NGOs set to protest against BT brinjal
- Orissa Diary, India (12.01.2010): Jairam Ramesh likely to be in Bhubaneswar to conduct consultation on BT Brinjal
- ThaiIndian News, Thailand (12.01.2010): Assessment on Bt Brinjal wrong, hold its release: biosafety expert
- The Hindu, India (09.01.2010): TNAU awaits Centre’s nod on brinjal seeds
- Express Buzz, India (09.01.2010): Govt backs genetically modified seeds
2010-01-07 | permalink
Kerala (India) village ’panchayat’ for local flavour, not Bt brinjal
There’s a new player in the fight against Bt brinjal, a village panchayat in Kerala that is seeking to preserve a traditional variety of eggplant. As part of the plans of the village-level elected legislative body, around 8,000 households in the Mararikulam North gram panchayat in the coastal district of Alappuzha in Kerala will now grow the Marari variety, a slender green brinjal that has long been grown in this part of the world.
2010-01-04 | permalink
Indian States revolt against Bt brinjal approval
A month away from the first public consultation on Bt brinjal, at least six state governments have now openly started talking against the Centre’s decision to release the first genetically modified food crop to farmers and have decided against implementing it. The state governments that have openly spoken against the Centre’s decision are Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Kerala, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Orissa.
2010-01-04 | permalink
Indian States revolt against Bt brinjal approval
A month away from the first public consultation on Bt brinjal, at least six state governments have now openly started talking against the Centre’s decision to release the first genetically modified food crop to farmers and have decided against implementing it. The state governments that have openly spoken against the Centre’s decision are Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Kerala, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Orissa.
2010-01-04 | permalink
Indian States revolt against Bt brinjal approval
A month away from the first public consultation on Bt brinjal, at least six state governments have now openly started talking against the Centre’s decision to release the first genetically modified food crop to farmers and have decided against implementing it. The state governments that have openly spoken against the Centre’s decision are Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Kerala, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Orissa.
2010-01-04 | permalink
Bt Brinjal: Indian Environment Minister trying to legitimise the GEAC fraud
In what appears to be a massive cover-up operation for the scientific swindle perpetrated in the case of the controversial approval granted by the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee to India’s first poisonous food crop -- Bt brinjal, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh is now trying to legitimise the fraud.
2010-01-04 | permalink
Indian States revolt against Bt brinjal approval
A month away from the first public consultation on Bt brinjal, at least six state governments have now openly started talking against the Centre’s decision to release the first genetically modified food crop to farmers and have decided against implementing it. The state governments that have openly spoken against the Centre’s decision are Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Kerala, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Orissa.
2009-12-17 | permalink
How Monsanto’s Bt brinjal was cleared in India
The Coalition for GM-free India alleged the expert committee that cleared the genetically modified brinjal for commercial cultivation in the country was neither impartial nor thorough. [...] What gave grounds for the allegation is the fact that over a period of time a third of the committee members have been in some way associated with either the seed company Mahyco that developed Bt brinjal or pro-Mahyco organizations.
2009-12-17 | permalink
Bt brinjal is safe, declare biotechnology scientists
Scientists [...] said the genetically modified vegetable was not only safe for consumption but also more profitable for the farmers. Scientists from across the country are taking part in the seminar which has been jointly organised by the All India Crop Biotechnology Association, Environment Resource Research Centre at Thiruvananthapuram, and Foundation for Biotechnology Awareness and Education at Bangalore.
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- Discussion on Bt brinjal hits the road of West Bengal (India)
- Indian Environment Minister to hold meetings on Bt brinjal across the nation
- Kerala (India) village ’panchayat’ for local flavour, not Bt brinjal
- Indian States revolt against Bt brinjal approval
- Indian States revolt against Bt brinjal approval
- Indian States revolt against Bt brinjal approval
- Bt Brinjal: Indian Environment Minister trying to legitimise the GEAC fraud
- Indian States revolt against Bt brinjal approval
- How Monsanto’s Bt brinjal was cleared in India
- Bt brinjal is safe, declare biotechnology scientists
