Judges will have to proffer a patent interpretation that bodes well for the future of innovation, ... News / Analysis / The Monsanto BT cotton case is not over yet . See Less. SHARE THIS ARTICLE ...

While Bt in straight varieties of cotton addresses the issues of seed costs for the future, it does not negate Monsanto's prior violations, nor is it any different from Monsanto's Bt when it comes to ...

The adult male farmers who planted Bt cotton got 704 of these calories per day, while those who planted regular cotton consumed 639 such calories. That amounts to a 10% advantage for farmers using ...

A study of GMO cotton varieties shows they disrupt an important beneficial soil fungus, writes Eva Sirinathsinghji, apparently due to the Bt insecticide they are engineered to express. Disruption ...

While the Bt technology initially solved the bollworm problems, outbreaks of secondary pests not controlled by the Bt toxins began to occur, again increasing insecticide use in Bt cotton that by ...

Nagaland does not need Bt cotton to build a thriving cotton economy. It already has the building blocks—it just needs the vision and support to scale them. Furthermore, the state government should ...

Kenya’s cotton sector is generally characterised by about 140,000 smallholder farmers, with a low average yield of 0. Cotton is mainly grown for its fibre, ...

The bigger point here isn’t that we absolutely need GMOs to feed the future world. If we banned all future GMO development and planting, ... In 2002, Bt cotton was introduced into the country.

Then farmers tried a new method to combat the insects: planting genetically modified cotton, called Bt cotton, that is toxic to pink bollworms. Now, over a decade later, the pink bollworm is gone.

Inspite of having no patent on Bt cotton seed, Monsanto started to collected royalties from Indian farmers, pushing up the cotton seed price by about 71,000% (from Rs 5 per kg to Rs 1,600 for 450 ...

The GM cotton planted by the farmers was Bt cotton, ... Whether the specter of Big Ag’s role in developing and selling many of the existing GMOs will overshadow future developments remains to be ...

When Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta visited the city of Eldoret in June, he gave those of us who live here a great sense of hope about the future of farming, science, and technology. Two months ...