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2006-10-31 | permalink
Mahyco violates GM trial conditions yet again
Please find below the findings from an investigation into a Bt Bhindi [Bt Okra] trial plot in Gulbarga district of Karnataka, by Centre for Sustainable Agriculture.
In May 2006, responding to an application under Right to Information, the state government of Karnataka admitted that it has no information on where GM crop trials are happening in the state. The current investigation once again shows that concerned departments and officials in the state [the horticulture department in this case] do not have any information on the trials happening in the state and this is a clear violation of the conditional clearance that Mahyco had obtained from the government of India. Mahyco has been asked, in the clearance letter from the department of biotechnology, to keep the state government, district authorities and the village panchayat informed about the exact details of the trial but we find that this is missing. More importantly, the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee itself does not have information on where various trials are happening in the country after permitting such trials!!!
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2006-10-31 | permalink
Mahyco violates GM trial conditions yet again
Please find below the findings from an investigation into a Bt Bhindi [Bt Okra] trial plot in Gulbarga district of Karnataka, by Centre for Sustainable Agriculture.
In May 2006, responding to an application under Right to Information, the state government of Karnataka admitted that it has no information on where GM crop trials are happening in the state. The current investigation once again shows that concerned departments and officials in the state [the horticulture department in this case] do not have any information on the trials happening in the state and this is a clear violation of the conditional clearance that Mahyco had obtained from the government of India. Mahyco has been asked, in the clearance letter from the department of biotechnology, to keep the state government, district authorities and the village panchayat informed about the exact details of the trial but we find that this is missing. More importantly, the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee itself does not have information on where various trials are happening in the country after permitting such trials!!!
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