the Bt cotton, to combat this pest. However, by 2009, the bollworm began to develop resistance to a toxic protein present in cotton. Crop breeder at RRS, Bathinda, Paramjit Singh, who is leading ...

Ludhiana: While the Punjab govt has offered a 33 per cent subsidy on Bt cotton seeds recommended by Punjab Agricultural ...

Kaputhala MLA Rana Gurjeet Singh today made an appeal to the Centre and the Punjab Government to save cotton growers and help ...

The authors say "under Indian conditions, bollworm have a high destructive capacity that is not well controlled in conventional cotton ... is more in Bt hybrids and the insect resistance remains ...

while simultaneously discouraging the cultivation of non-recommended hybrids to enable them to adopt high-yielding and pest-resistant Bt cotton hybrid seeds. “The agriculture department has ...

cotton, and soybeans, that have been genetically modified to express insecticide genes from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt). When susceptible pests munch on these “Bt crops,” they get ...

The return of the pink-bollworm first set alarm bells ringing as early as in 2015. That year, Indian cotton scientists were deeply worried about what they felt was a conclusive breakdown of the ...

A bollworm, Helicoverpa zea, munches down on a cotton flower bud. This pest insect eats all parts of the cotton plant. In some places, bollworm have as many as six generations in one growing season.