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UPSC Issue at a Glance | Genetically Modified (GM) Crops and India: 4 essential questions to understand the debate
July 13, 2025 12:25 pm
The Donald Trump administration is exerting pressure on India to open up its market to American soyabean and maize, which are both almost entirely GM produce. But what are GM crops? Here's what you must know about GM crops for your UPSC science syllabus. Don't miss out on the post-read questions in the end.
Can GM crops promise food security?
June 20, 2024 3:32 pm
A new "gene revolution" is being heralded as a cure-all for a growing global appetite and a climate-hit food system.
Ban on commercial release of GM crops will be against national interest, Centre tells SC
January 19, 2024 1:53 am
Apex court reserves judgment on PILs challenging govt move for commercial release of GM mustard variant DMH-11
Gene-edited mustard: Less pungent, more useful
August 23, 2023 5:01 pm
Indian scientists have developed the first ever low-pungent mustard that is pest and disease-resistant. It is based on CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing, while being non-GM and transgene-free. Why does this hold significance for consumers and oilseed producers?
Stay with science, go slow on GM crops Transgenic technology
December 22, 2022 8:35 am
What is the urgent necessity for GM mustard release when the Supreme Court’s Technical Expert Committee and two unanimous reports of multi-party parliamentary standing committees have recommended that HT crops should be banned in India and the precautionary principle followed?
Genetically modified crops: A wake-up call?
July 21, 2019 7:09 am
Amid a continuing moratorium on all genetically modified crops except Bt cotton, prohibited seeds are now in use across the country. The government knows it, and defiant farmers have started challenging it to do something about it.
No risks reported from GM crops grown for decades: FSSAI scientist
July 21, 2019 12:51 am
DR S R Rao, Chairman, FSSAI Scientific Panel on GM foods, and former senior advisor, Department of Biotechnology, talks to The Indian Express about the debate on the genetically modified (GM) crops.
GM crops: Farmers clear, politics muddled
July 21, 2019 12:39 am
The opposition to GM crops is clearly not from farmers. Were that so, the global annual area planted under them wouldn’t have risen from a mere 1.7 million to nearly 190 million hectares between 1996 and 2017.
GM crop safe, but must assess case by case: ICMR to House panel
May 31, 2017 4:19 am
ICMR has told a parliamentary panel that while genetically modified crops are “generally safe”, the “individual GM foods” should be assessed on a “case by case basis”.
GM technology: Compulsory licensing rules withdrawn after outcry from crop research majors
May 24, 2016 1:47 am
The Indian Express has learnt that the decision to put on hold the latest notification came after intervention at the “highest level”
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