{"id":886,"date":"2015-11-23T09:15:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T09:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prabartana.com\/ubinigdemo\/?p=886"},"modified":"2021-03-20T09:31:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T09:31:23","slug":"bangladesh-ngo-report-challenges-bbc-claim-of-90-success-for-bt-brinjal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prabartana.com\/ubinigdemo\/blog\/bangladesh-ngo-report-challenges-bbc-claim-of-90-success-for-bt-brinjal\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh NGO report challenges BBC claim of 90% success for Bt brinjal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The narrative of GMO success is unravelling, writes Claire Robinson<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently we published an\u00a0article<\/a>\u00a0about a report by the policy research organization UBINIG, which presented the results of its investigation into the performance of GM Bt insecticidal brinjal (eggplant) in its second year of cultivation in Bangladesh.

UBINIG\u2019s report found that officials from the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) and the Department of Agriculture nannied the GM brinjal plants through their short and fragile lives, providing farmers with a large arsenal of pesticides to combat the host of pests and diseases that besieged the plants. In many cases the officials even took over management of the crop from the farmers.

The report also\u00a0alleged<\/a>\u00a0that failing Bt brinjal plants were replaced by the officials during the growing season, meaning that the project would not meet basic scientific standards and could not be used as evidence for the crop\u2019s success.

In spite of these extraordinary efforts, however, UBINIG concluded that Bt brinjal had proved a \u201cmiserable failure\u201d, giving poor yields and income for the farmers and fruits that proved hard to sell in the marketplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full Report: https:\/\/gmwatch.org\/en\/news\/latest-news\/16537<\/a>\/<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The narrative of GMO success is unravelling, writes Claire Robinson Recently we published an\u00a0article\u00a0about a report by the policy research organization UBINIG, which presented the results of its investigation into the performance of GM Bt insecticidal brinjal (eggplant) in its second year of cultivation in Bangladesh. UBINIG\u2019s report found that officials from the Bangladesh Agricultural […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[211,172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prabartana.com\/ubinigdemo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prabartana.com\/ubinigdemo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prabartana.com\/ubinigdemo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prabartana.com\/ubinigdemo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prabartana.com\/ubinigdemo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/prabartana.com\/ubinigdemo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":889,"href":"http:\/\/prabartana.com\/ubinigdemo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prabartana.com\/ubinigdemo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prabartana.com\/ubinigdemo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prabartana.com\/ubinigdemo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prabartana.com\/ubinigdemo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}