The Bt Brinjal saga, when emotions ran high
New Delhi, Feb.9: India’s controversial Bt Brinjal saga has been a prickly issue confronting its agriculture when emotions ran high before the Government put the brakes today. And never since the days of the Green Revolution in the 1970s has a food crop aroused the curiousity of the Agriculture community as much as the country’s first genetically modified vegetable. For the man in the hot seat, Jairam Ramesh, who determines whether the country is ready to embrace genetically modified food crops, it was jumping out of the frying pan into the fire. Just few weeks back in December, he was involved in tortuous negotiations at the World Climate Change summit at Copenhagen.
Caught between pro and anti-Bt Brinjal groups, the silver haired minister wa
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