Cotton Curse: Tired of losses, farmers giving up cotton on a large scale

The production of cotton in Punjab has almost halved in the past decade

Simply Put: Tricking the worm

Cotton Curse: Pheromone-based mating disruption technology may help control pink bollworm

Experiments show 90% reduction in losses, improved yield

Cotton Curse: How pink bollworm evolved to be the biggest threat for Bt cotton

Farmers say the pest has grown to become worse than the American bollworm

Cotton Curse: Damage by pink bollworm to Bt Cotton worst in two decades

Farmers say damage by pink bollworm worse than American bollworm for which the Bt Cotton hybrid was created  

Cotton Curse: Bt Cotton losses by pink bollworm pushing farmers to brink of suicide

Part 1: Recurring losses due to pests in North India compounding farmers’ distress, finds DTE ground report 

Cotton Curse: No buyers for salvaged produce after pink bollworm wreaks havoc

Labourers refuse to pick leftover crop as yield too low and traders refuse to buy citing poor quality

Cotton Curse: How pink bollworm developed resistance to Bt Cotton

Entomologists say early and late sowing, long-duration crops and not planting other varieties against advice may have contributed to resistance …

Does India really need GM Mustard?

Botanists say that pests and insects may grow resistant to the transgenic crop after a decade or so, triggering the need for newer versions of …

How power shaped the ‘success story’ of genetically modified cotton in Burkina Faso

Many GM crops in Africa are not the domain of big agri-business companies. This doesn’t mean vested interests won’t still shape …

Ahead of SC hearing on GM mustard, activists accuse Centre of misleading apex court

Supreme Court did not get the opportunity to hear the parties in 2016 and 2017 because of repeated undertakings made by the Centre, saying …

GM mustard: Need to address economic issues of using the crop

Some valuable lessons from Bt Cotton were who funds research and development and who will distribute the seeds

I know the havoc that genetically modified crops can wreak

Indians are killing the future of the coming generations by welcoming GMOs in Indian food and environment

GE cotton: Three states refuse NOC for field trials

GEAC demands Telangana, Gujarat state reasons for declining, will take decision if Maharashtra doesn't reply on time