Herbicide Glyphosate
The government has advised states growing cotton but not tea, to disallow the sale of the herbicide glyphosate with a view to curbing the proliferation of unapproved, genetically-modified (GM), herbicide-tolerant (HT) cotton. The Agriculture Ministry recently called a meeting of state representatives to implement the recommendations of the Field Inspection and Scientific Evaluation Committee (FISEC).
FISEC: It had been set up at the instance of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) to make an assessment of the scale on which unapproved HT cotton was cultivated and suggest measures to curb it. FISEC had members from the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, department ....
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