Archive for the 'Guest Biotech Blogs' Category
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- Debate on GMOs Luxury to Developing World | Posted by GMO Africa on Aug 02 2007
- Control of Bt Cotton Seed Price by the Government of Andhra Pradesh, India | Posted by GMO Africa on Jun 30 2007
- Bt Cotton in Warangal district, Andhra Pradesh, India: The farmers’ story | Posted by GMO Africa on May 24 2007
- Bt cotton in Warangal district, Andra Pradesh, India: The perception of the establishment | Posted by GMO Africa on May 24 2007
- Bt cotton in Warangal District, Andhira Pradesh, India: The NGO charge sheet | Posted by GMO Africa on May 24 2007
- Guest Biotech Blogs | Posted by admin on Apr 24 2007
By Elen Eubanks
Food is at the bottom of the pyramid of human needs according to Maslow’s hierarchy, yet global hunger is extremely prevalent in developing nations and contributes significantly towards mortality and morbidity. Starving children in Africa seems especially ironic when compared with the obvious trend in child obesity and eating disorders in […]
By Dr. C Kameswara Rao
FBAE Biotech Blog
June 30, 2007
The Government of the State of Andhra Pradesh (AP) is issuing an Ordinance restricting the maximum sale price of 400 g of Bt cotton seed required for an acre to Rs. 750. The package also includes 50 g of non-Bt cotton seed to plant […]
By C Kameswara Rao
Foundation for Biotechnology Awareness and Education
May 24, 2007
We met about 20 Bt cotton growing farmers from different villages such as Kadipikonda (Hanumakonda Mandal), Kapulakanaparthi (Sangyem Mandal), Dharmaram (Beejakonda Mandal), Uggonipalli and Ustarapalli (both in Atmakur Mandal), and Yellampalli (Chityala Mandal) in the Warangal District. Three or four farmers we met […]
By C Kameswara Rao
Foundation for Biotechnology Awareness and Education
At Hyderabad, we visited the Andhra Pradesh State Seed Certification Agency. We met with Scientific Officers of the Warangal Research Station of the Acharya NG Ranga Agricultural University of AP., the Officers at the District Office of the Government Department of Agriculture, Warangal and the dealers […]
By C Kameswara Rao
Foundation for Biotechnology Awareness and Education
May 24, 2007
Lately, the Warangal District, in the semi-arid Telengana region of the State of Andhra Pradesh (AP), India, has become the epicenter of everything going bad in the cultivation of Bt cotton. Reports of phenomenal failure of Bt cotton, farmer distress, death of sheep, death […]
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