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2007-02-07 |

Growing pains of India"s GM revolution

"Indian farmers are clamouring for genetically-modified seeds"; so said India"s agriculture minister Agit Singh five years ago. If that indeed was the case then - which is open to dispute - much has changed since. [...] The only GM crop now being grown commercially might put a shirt on your back but is absolutely guaranteed not to alleviate hunger - it is cotton.

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2007-02-07 |

Growing pains of India"s GM revolution

"Indian farmers are clamouring for genetically-modified seeds"; so said India"s agriculture minister Agit Singh five years ago. If that indeed was the case then - which is open to dispute - much has changed since. [...] The only GM crop now being grown commercially might put a shirt on your back but is absolutely guaranteed not to alleviate hunger - it is cotton.

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