Genetically modified crops

Food Safety and Standards (GM Foods) (Draft) Regulations

The FSSAI recently released a new draft of Genetically Modified (GM) Food regulations for public consultation. This comes...

📅 November 24, 2022

GEAC planning to recommend ‘environmental release’ of Bayer’s GM Cotton

Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) is currently planning to recommend environmental release of a genetically modified (GM) herbicide...

📅 October 31, 2022

MoEFCC Order on Genome-edited Plants

The Indian government has issued an order for the first time exempting certain types of crops that are...

📅 April 4, 2022

Draft Food Safety & Standards (Genetically Modified or Engineered Foods) Regulations, 2021

“Draft Food Safety and Standards (Genetically Modified or Engineered Foods) Regulations, 2021” was issued by Food Safety and...

📅 November 19, 2021

World’s first GM Rubber planted in Assam

Rubber Board has started field trial of world’s first GM (genetically modified) rubber in the state of Assam....

📅 June 23, 2021

GM Crop: White Flies Resistant Cotton Field Trials begins

The National Botanical Research Institute developed pest resistant cotton variety. The cotton variety is to be field tested...

📅 March 18, 2020

Facts Box: Illegal farming of Bt Brinjal

Two laboratories confirmed illegal Bt brinjal cultivation in Haryana recently. The samples have also been sent by the...

📅 December 27, 2019

India ranked as world’s fifth largest cultivated area under genetically modified (GM) crops

According to the Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/ GM Crops in 2017 by International Service for the Acquisition...

📅 July 18, 2018

India’s genetically modified crop area fifth largest in world: Report

According to the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA) latest ‘Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/...

📅 July 12, 2018

GM Mustard

Hybrid variety of a crop is obtained by crossing of two genetically diverse plants of same species and...

📅 April 13, 2018