Is India ready to embrace GM food crops?


Debates and researches are continuing across the world on GM crops and its repercussions on environment and other plants.

Many countries including India remained hesitant even to experiment with the latest technology in agriculture which could feed the millions of people added every year to the food chain.

In India, GM food crops are not allowed to cultivate and only BT Cotton is cultivated via this technology, which proved useful to boost output many folds.

The use of BT cotton has fostered Indian yields since the season of 2000-2001. But this doesn’t prompt Indian authorities to experiment with a food crop.

India last year rejected requests for BT Brinjal after holding public consultations across several cities and meeting up with farmers, scientists, environment activists and ordinary citizens.

Indian society still sees the technology through suspected eyes and believed that unquestionable benefits in the short term could lead to potential risks to human health and country’s agriculture heritage in the long term...........Read More

 

Source Web Page:  Commodity Online


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