Tag: India
Milking the system: India Days 5 & 6
Written by Becca Harrison Editor’s note: This is a post in a series about Becca’s travels in India. For previous posts in the series, visit My textbooks definitely did not prepare me for this: India 2013, A [real life] picture says a thousand words: India Day 2, India’s disparity: From the train station to the region’s top…
1% of India = a business opportunity – India Day 4
Written by Becca Harrison Editor’s note: This is a post in a series about Becca’s travels in India. For previous posts in the series, visit My textbooks definitely did not prepare me for this: India 2013, A [real life] picture says a thousand words: India Day 2, and India’s disparity: From the train station to the region’s top…
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No, spiders are not invading India.
When it comes to public relations, few animals have problems as severe as spiders. There are two kinds of confirmed medically significant species of spider in the US, the widows (genus Latrodectus) and the recluses (genus Loxoceles). Although diagnoses of widow bites are probably fairly accurate, there is a huge problem with the overdiagnosis of…
Myths about eggplant (brinjal) as medicine are holding up Indian release of GM brinjal, but brinjal is not a medicine
Book available as pdf for free download (see link below) Previous posts at GMO Pundit have covered GM insect protected eggplant being developed as a new crop variety in India. This insect-protected crop, making use of Bt protein trait, could avoid a large amount of current synthetic pesticide spraying in India and prevent many poisoning…
The real success story of GM cotton and edible cotton oil in India 2002-2011
A wonderful colorful and readable booklet about the success of Bt cotton in India has been made available from the ISAAA website for India.A sample table from this booklet tells the story of the massive expansion of cotton output over the last 10 years. Indian cotton production statistics this last decade