Tag: bt brinjal on life suport

GMWATCH A policy research group has concluded that the GM crop was a “miserable failure” in its second year of cultivation. Claire Robinson reports https://gmwatch.org/en/news/latest-news/16535 Bt brinjal (eggplant) has proved a “miserable failure” in its second year of cultivation in Bangladesh, according to a new report by the development policy research group, UBINIG. Unimpressed by claims that Bt brinjal has proved a boon to farmers, the group conducted its own field investigations and concluded that this GM crop is on “life support”. The UBINIG investigators obtained a list of 110 farmers growing Bt brinjal made by the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), which is managing the Bt brinjal project in the country in collaboration with Cornell University. UBINI...