The pink bollworm has brought down India’s cotton production by a quarter in the last decade. While a few seed companies have ...

Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) will soon undertake the second round of field trials for pink bollworm-resistant (PBW) ...

The Supreme Court of India is going to hear the plea against GM Mustard on April 15, 2025, after giving a split verdict in July last year. GM mustard faces opposition from environmentalists and ...

Confined field trials of BT cotton at five sites in Zimbabwe show positive results giving more scope for the country to scale ...

Bt cotton is a genetically modified crop that produces an insecticidal protein toxic to the devastating cotton bollworm pest, reducing the need for broad-based sprays that can kill beneficial ...

In March 2016, the government slashed royalty fees on Bt Cotton by 74% to ₹43 per packet ... seeds weren’t as effective at resisting the bollworm as originally promised.

saying that the pink bollworm, a major threat to cotton crop, has become resistant to the Cry1Ac toxin produced by the Bt cotton. "Bt cotton has been a huge help to us for many years now ...

The price of Bt Cotton Bollgard-II seeds has increased by 18.5% over the last four years, reaching Rs 864 per packet in 2024. In contrast, urea prices have remained stable, but other fertilisers ...

For more than 20 years, farmers across the globe have been planting crops, including corn, cotton, and soybeans, that have been genetically modified to express insecticide genes from the bacterium ...

Meanwhile, in 2024, PhilFIDA reported a successful commercial harvest of Bt cotton, a genetically modified variety resistant to cotton bollworm infestations. “With this resistance, farmers can ...

The Punjab government may have been motivating Malwa farmers to expand the area under cotton as the sowing ... Bollgard-III stage of BT seeds resistant to pink bollworm pest, the efforts may ...