KEEP BASMATI RICE AREAS FREE FROM GM CROP TRIALS

NEW DELHI, FEB 23: The Union commerce ministry has decided to intervene and ask the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) not to approve field trials of genetically modified (GM) crops in Basmati rice growing states of...

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BKU TORCHES GM RICE TEST FIELD IN KARNAL

GAUTAM DHEER

Indian Express, October 30 2006

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CHANDIGARH, OCTOBER 29 : In a serious setback for field tests of genetically modified (GM) rice, activists of the Bharatiya Kisan...

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MORE BIOPIRACY IN INDIA

Chhattisgarh has again been attacked by a multinational company. You must be remembering two years back Syngenta a Swiss MNC tried to snatch the germplasm of twenty thousand rice varieties of Chhattisgarh.

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INDIA, PAK TEAM UP TO FILE GI FOR BASMATI

India and Pakistan will jointly seek Geographical Indications (GI) registration in Europe and the US for basmati rice, according to the Union Minister of State for Commerce, Mr Jairam Ramesh.

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PAKISTAN, INDIA TO REGISTER BASMATI RICE

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and India moved forward in 12 key areas during the third round of the composite dialogue on economic and commercial cooperation in Islamabad on Tuesday.

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