Feb 9th is National Safe Food Day !!
Coalition for a GM-Free India celebrates Feb 9th as National Safe Food Day
New Delhi: February 9, 2012: On the second anniversary of the decision taken by the then Minister for Environment & Forests to declare a moratorium on Bt brinjal, the Coalition for a GM-Free India has decided to mark ... Continue Reading
Monsanto OFFICIALLY caught in illegal planting of GM maize in UAS Dharwad
Published By kavitha On Monday, February 6th 2012. Under Field Trials, News, Press Releases Tags: GEAC failure, Illegal planting, Monsanto
“BLACKLIST MONSANTO IMMEDIATELY : MNC CAUGHT VIOLATING BIOSAFETY NORMS YET AGAIN IN GM MAIZE TRIAL, THIS TIME OFFICIALLY”
New Delhi/Bengaluru, February 6th 2012: Ahead of a regulators’ meeting on February 8th 2012, and reacting to the confirmed reports of Monsanto’s illegal planting of Herbicide Tolerant (HT) maize in its GM maize ... Continue Reading
ADVERTISING STANDARDS COUNCIL OF INDIA CONCLUDES THAT MAHYCO MONSANTO BIOTECH’S CLAIMS ON BOLLGARD ARE NOT SUBSTANTIATED
A prominent advertisement by Mahyco-Monsanto Biotech Ltd titled “Bollgard boosts the Indian cotton farmers’ income by over Rs. 31,500 crores” that appeared in Hindustan Times on August 30th 2011, was found to be not substantiated in its claims by the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI). ASCI found that the ... Continue Reading
Sharad Pawar reiterates State Govts authority….
Published By kavitha On Saturday, January 7th 2012. Under Field Trials, News, States Tags: Field Trials, States
In a letter to the Chattisgarh Agriculture Minister Mr Chandrasekhar Sahu, Sharad Pawar, Union Agriculture Minister reiterates that if the state government does not agree for conduct of any GM crop field trials in the State, no approvals would be accorded by GEAC for such trials (However, this is not ... Continue Reading
Kerala Govt reiterates its stand against GM crops
Published By kavitha On Friday, January 6th 2012. Under Field Trials, States Tags: GM crops, State Governments
In a letter to activists, the Kerala Government's Secretary, Agriculture, reiterates the government's stand against GM crops and informs that the state government has already conveyed its stand of not permitting any GM research or even trial, within the boundaries of Kerala to Government of India.
Letter of Secretary-Agriculture-kerala can be ... Continue Reading
India’s ‘public sector indigenous Bt cotton’ a scientific fraud!
Published By kavitha On Friday, December 30th 2011. Under Bt Cotton, News, Press Releases Tags: Bt cotton, Scientific Fraud
Coalition for a GM-Free India demands immediate stopping of all public sector transgenic research and an independent enquiry and action against fraudulent scientists.
2011 ends with a big blot to the Indian scientific community, as was the case in 2010 too. The much-hyped public sector Bt cotton lines (Bikaneri Narma Bt ... Continue Reading
Hyped Desi Cotton has Monsanto gene!
India's claim of having developed its own Bt cotton (genetically modified) variety has taken an embarrassing turn with an RTI inquiry by two scientists revealing how the University of Agriculture Sciences (UAS) at Dharwad went ahead — brushing aside all precautions — to produce an indigenous variety working on a ... Continue Reading
Scientific Fraud: Misconduct by UAS-Dharwad in the name of Bt cotton
Published By kavitha On Wednesday, December 28th 2011. Under Bt Cotton, News Tags: Bt cotton, Monsanto, Scientific Fraud
In the name of Bt cotton production, spurious act of developing Bt cotton
A misconduct in the name of developing Bt Cotton, by University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad came to the notice of Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR). In the last eight years, as the Bt cotton seed prices ... Continue Reading
One more MP writes to the PM on the BRAI Bill
Mr Ramsundar Das, the JD (U) leader in Lok Sabha and a former Chief Minister of Bihar, wrote to the PM on the BRAI Bill.
A copy of the letter is available here.
... Continue Reading
Creating an Undemocratic and Unaccountable Biotechnology Regulator
ESG's Critique of the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India Bill 2011 can be accessed here's.
Creating an Undemocratic and Unaccountable Biotechnology Regulator
Biotechnology is a cross cutting issue that affects food production, farming, health, environment and information technology sectors. It is to be expected then that formulation of any law governing this ... Continue Reading
Madhya Pradesh opposes Biotech Regulatory Bill
Published By kavitha On Tuesday, November 22nd 2011. Under BRAI Bill, Field Trials, States Tags: BRAI Bill, Field Trials, States
You can download Dr Ramakrishna Kusmariya's letter to Mr Vilasrao Deshmukh here.
Madhya Pradesh opposes Biotech Regulatory Bill
Madhya Pradesh has decided to officially oppose the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) Bill, to be tabled in the Parliament on Tuesday.
State Agriculture Minister Ramkrishna Kusmaria has written to Union Science and Technology ... Continue Reading
Farmers protest against BRAI Bill
Published By kavitha On Tuesday, November 22nd 2011. Under BRAI Bill Tags: BRAI Bill, Farmers Protest, Karnataka
Farmers protest against BRAI Bill
A group of farmers staged a demonstration outside the residence of Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda here on Monday. They were protesting against the Biotech Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) Bill that is scheduled to be tabled in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
“The Chief Minister should ... Continue Reading
BRAI Bill tabling tomorrow: Opposition from all quarters
Published By kavitha On Monday, November 21st 2011. Under Biosafety, BRAI Bill, Press Releases, Regulatory Processes Tags: BRAI Bill
The text of the Statement of Concern signed by ten former Supreme Court Judges is available here
Appeal to Scrap Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) Bill 2011
Jointly signed by various organisations and concerned citizens across the country
Date : 21 November 2011
To,
Dr. Manmohan Singh,
The Hon'ble Prime Minister,
Government of India.
Dear Dr. Manmohan ... Continue Reading
Former SC Judges oppose Bill on Biotechnology
FORMER SC JUDGES OPPOSE BILL ON BIOTECHNOLOGY
Chetan Chauhan chetan@hindustantimes.com
Ahead of the winter session of Parliament, former judges of the Supreme Court have questioned the efficacy of three bills on new regulatory authority for biotechnology sector, unfair practices in higher education and constitution of education tribunals.
The winter session has hectic ... Continue Reading
Bt cotton fails farmers in Tamil Nadu
Published By kavitha On Monday, November 21st 2011. Under Uncategorized Tags: Bt cotton, Failure, Insecticides
Bt cotton fails farmers in state
CHENNAI: For Arul Venkatesan, a cotton-growing farmer in the Aroor block of Dharmapuri district, the stand that Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa took in the Assembly in August, that her government will not “promote” GM crops in the State, “struck the ears like music”.
Venkatesan was one ... Continue Reading
