ADILABAD: With the Kharif season approaching, farmers are facing a problem as seed companies have increased cotton seed ...

The price of BT Cotton Bollgard-II seeds has risen significantly over the past four years, contrasting with the stable rates ...

Confined field trials of BT cotton at five sites in Zimbabwe show positive results giving more scope for the country to scale ...

After a decade of stagnant stock performance, Kaveri Seeds has staged a strong comeback. The company, once heavily reliant on ...

Elmore’s "Seed Money: Monsanto’s Past and Our Food Future" does not read like a sanctioned history of Monsanto. Nor does it sizzle with prosecutorial zeal. Govt keeps Bt cotton price unchanged ...

A need to keep farmers happy? Despite being well above the price of approved BT cotton seeds, farmers are buying illegal HT cotton seeds in droves because there’s a shortage in the supply of new ...

Nagpur: Farmers from across Vidarbha, especially Yavatmal, have urged the govt to make available the latest Herbicide-Tolerant BT cotton (HTBt) seeds to improve the crop yield in the coming season.

This is in line with the government’s rationale that while Monsanto has patent rights to the Bt cotton gene, once it is introduced into a plant seed, the product becomes subject to the Plant ...

Things were bad at the beginning, but now they are looking up with Bt cotton. We are now at the forefront championing for increased acreage of the crop,” Olamong says. Government banks on seed ...

He used to plant ten seeds in a hole. Now, two cut it because of higher germination. It also helps that the Bt cotton matures way faster than the conventional one. Irene Karimi says that in half a ...