UPDATE

GM fields

Farmers shun cotton

Delayed monsoons, high input cost make farmers shift to guar, groundnut and pulses

Made for India

Addition of newly-found gene could help Indian Bt cotton varieties withstand pest attacks

Organic cotton

Biased bill

Duping pests

Pesticides are not the only way

Bt for Better Times?

Good weather, illegal Bt seeds raise Punjab's sagging cotton yields

India's farmers don't like GM crops

National level meeting of farmer bodies rails about Bt cotton

Maharashtra CM for Art of Living to check Vidarbha suicides

Vidarbha compensation package inadequate

Price support, not loans, can save Vidarbha farmers

Punjab takes precautions for mealy bug attack

Modified to work

Salinity of black cotton soils can now be measured easily

Western Vidarbha reduces use of synthetic fertilisers

No corresponding drop in agricultural production

A dash of mustard

After Bt cotton, it's now GM mustard; where is our scientific community?

Regressive move

Pestilential high tech

More facts, more doubts

Monsanto ups the Bt cotton ante with a feel-good survey

Shady seeds

Illegal Bt cotton traders nabbed

Bt's soil chemistry

GM cotton less profitable than non-GM variety

Bollworm ignores high doses of insecticide

Operation pest guard

Integrated pest management treatments come to the rescue of cotton farmers

For the sake of caution

A decision to refuse clearance to GMOs should be based on good science and policy

A pest overrides Bt

Judicious mix of Bt and non-Bt crops can prevent this