date:Oct 22, 2012
erant GM corn variety in the research station here. The farmers protest comes close on the heels of the recommendation of the Supreme Court Technical Expert Committee (TEC) to put a 10-year moratorium on all field trials of GM crops in India owing to the potential risks involved.
It might be noted that the TEC, comprising eminent scientists in the country on the field of molecular biology and biotechnology, after doing widespread consultations with experts said that the moratorium was necessita