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Friday, Feb 07, 2003
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Agri-Biz & Commodities
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Cotton Greenpeace raises Bt cotton issue with Ministry Our Bureau
NEW DELHI, Feb. 6 GREENPEACE, the international environmental organisation, today met the Union Environment Minister, Mr T.R. Baalu, to discuss the performance of Bt cotton. The meeting focused on the expert team report of the Genetic Engineering Advisory Committee (GEAC) of the Ministry on the performance of Bt cotton in its first season after commercial introduction last year in India. The pro-green organisation raised issues on the yields, environmental impact and the design, scope and methodology of the assessment study conducted by the GEAC's expert team, according to an official communiqué. The expert team after field visits in November last year had reported that the performance of Bt cotton in terms of higher number of bolls per plant, reduced number of sprays per control of bollworms and higher yields harvested so far have been found to be satisfactory. Bt cotton is now grown in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu in about 73,000 acres.
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