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[ad_1] Observing that literacy and awareness level among Indian farmers are not at the level of their counterparts in western countries, the Supreme Court on Thursday said all precautionary measures must be taken before allowing cultivation of genetically modified herbicide-tolerant mustard crop and asked the Centre whether there was any...

No one knows about the effect of GM mustard environmental release, SC told, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms

[ad_1] A petitioner opposing the environmental release of genetically modified (GM) mustard told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that the plants of the seeds would begin flowering in a few weeks and before the environment is contaminated, they should be uprooted.Advocate Prashant Bhushan, representing activist Aruna Rodrigues, submitted before a...

Farmers’ body in SC opposes plea against GM mustard, Legal News, ET LegalWorld – Legal Firms

[ad_1] New Delhi, A farmers' organisation has moved the Supreme Court opposing a petition against the release of GM Mustard, saying that a ban of technologies like GM seeds would worsen the plight of farmers as the old-method of farming has proved to be a failure in dry regions of...