"Not allowing research to go ahead is like closing the doors on future," said Anil Kakodkar, former chairman ofAtomic Energy Commission of India, while addressing a group of farmers who has come to plead with him about giving them an option of using the genetically-modified (GM) crops.

Kakodkar was chairing a meeting of the Maharashtra government's technical committee on GM crops. The expert committee under the chairmanship of Kakodkar had issued no-objection certificate (NOC) for confined field trials of GM crops in January. However, in June, the state government told seed companies not to go ahead with the trials as some organisations have raised objections.............Read more

Source web page: The Economic Times