Sunday, July 15, 2012

Let's farm along with nature, not against it

...........Scientist M S Swaminathan in his report "the MS Swaminathan Task Force Report on agricultural biotechnology" highlights that areas of biodiversity like the Western Ghats should be protected from GM crops. Unfortunately, the government has turned a blind eye to these recommendations and decided to introduce GM crops in India forcefully, by pushing through the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) Bill, which proposes a single window clearance system manned mainly by biotechnologists to approve of GM crops...................

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