Jun 18, 2021 · The illegal cultivation of herbicide tolerant (HT) Bt cotton has seen ... Federation of Seed Industry of India executive director Shivendra ...

Jul 10, 2019 · Herbicide-tolerant Bt (HT Bt) Cotton is genetically modified crop of unapproved genes which is not permissible in India.

Jul 24, 2020 · ... the Covid-19 crisis, the Indian seed sector is being challenged by another deadly contamination: from Herbicide Tolerant (HT) Bt cotton.

Jun 18, 2021 · HT Bt cotton acreage ... With the acreage under unauthorised hybrid tolerant Bt cotton (HTBt cotton) increasing and threatening to cut into ...

Jun 26, 2020 · HYDERABAD: With the state government keen on cotton cultivation in 70 lakh acres as part of regulated farming, fears of farmers using herbicide ...

Jul 20, 2021 · For the Indian market, Monsanto-Mahyco had entered into a tie-up and the latter had conducted trials for HT seeds. In 2016, the trials were ...

Jul 4, 2019 · In 2011, India grew the largest GM cotton crop at 10.6 million hectares. ... farmers plan to defy GM ban, get ready to plant HT cotton seeds ...

Jun 19, 2021 · Bt cotton is the only transgenic crop that has been approved by the Centre for commercial cultivation in India.

Jul 1, 2021 · If the sale of unapproved HT-BT cotton seed is not stopped it would spell disaster for the industry and farmers.

Jan 13, 2020 · This means the share of herbicide tolerant (Ht) cotton in total output ... In 2002, India allowed Bt cotton, the only GM crop approved for ...