Agriculture minister Gurmeet Singh Khudian has asked the department to make efforts for increasing area under the crop and has asked farmers to purchase PAU-certified seeds.

Ahead of the cotton sowing season in Punjab, there has been an increasing demand for Bollgard-3, a pest-resistant cotton variety which is yet to become available in India ...

A pesticide-free technique which is economically viable, environment-friendly and gives more yield gains ground in Punjab, ...

Nagpur: Farmers from across Vidarbha, especially Yavatmal, have urged the govt to make available the latest ...

The ruling effectively terminates the American biotechnology giant’s intellectual property rights to Bt cotton technology in India. The court explained that under India’s Patents Act of 1970 ...

A section of farmers in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have called for a science-based approach to policymaking, asserting their right to choose advanced agricultural technologies.

Joseph Nyaga, whose three-acre sprawl of the crop has the finesse of a model farm, pays glowing tribute to the Bt cotton. "One acre of the old one gave 300 kilos of cotton. Now for every acre ...

Nonetheless, the fact that a first-generation GM crop like Bt cotton already contributes to poverty reduction and rural welfare growth has not been widely recognized up till now and might further ...

Figure 1: Returns to labor from Bt cotton and conventional cotton in rural India.

EFFORTS to strengthen the local cotton industry are gaining ground as the Philippine Textile Research Institute (PTRI) and the Philippine Fiber Industry Development Authority (PhilFida) are teaming up ...