After 7 years of planting cotton genetically engineered to kill bollworms, other insects have boomed so much on Chinese farms that their owners are losing money. The new finding, from a study of ...

Bug worry: A cotton field in Haryana. A rise in the number of pests will mean more insecticides and may also raise input costs. India’s cotton productivity has fallen over the past three years.

Ithaca, N.Y. -- Although Chinese cotton growers were among the first farmers worldwide to plant genetically modified (GM) cotton to resist bollworms, the substantial profits they have reaped for ...

Bt cotton was developed specifically to control bollworms, the most destructive of cotton crop pests. It has been under commercial cultivation since 1996 in the US and several other countries, and in ...

ADOPTION of genetically-modified (GM) crops is a controversial issue the world over as regards its benefits and cost of cultivation. Genetically-modified seeds have some merits and demerits which need ...

Widespread use of insect-resistant cotton in China is creating pest problems for fruit farmers, say researchers. Dr Kongming Wu of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing and ...

Cotton farmers in Marathwada should explore options beyond Bt cotton seeds as the costs of cultivating the genetically modified variety were higher, but with no added productivity, profitability or ...

On a hot afternoon late in April, about a dozen of cotton farmers at Halvad tehsil in Gujarat's Surendra nagar district, 160 km southwest of Ahmedabad, are busy cleaning their fields and tilling the ...

The two cotton-growing centers could hardly differ more. But small farms in India and industrial fields in Arizona both provide case studies that show the bright side of a widespread genetically ...

Hyderabad: Enthused by Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh's decision to stop the entry of Bt brinjal into the country, anti-GM (Genetically Modified crops) activists are demanding a review on Bt ...

As the director of Nagpur’s Central Institute for Cotton Research (CICR), entrusted with the development of India’s cotton economy, one would have expected Keshav Raj Kranthi to take a patrician view ...

COTTON is vital for Pakistan's economy. It is an important source of livelihood for millions, and provides raw material for the textile industry -- the largest employer of non-farm labour and the ...