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Ramesh to hold meetings on Bt brinjal across the country

Ramesh to hold meetings on Bt brinjal across the country

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New Delhi: Environment minsiter Jairam Ramesh will from Wednesday hold a series of public meetings across the country on the controversial Bt brinjal which was cleared by the country’s bio-technology regulator last year for its commercial cultivation.

Besides the first meeting on Wednesday in Kolkata, the next will be held in Bhubaneshwar on 16 January, in Ahmedabad on 19 January, Hyderabad (22 January), Bangalore (23 January), Nagpur (27 January) and in Chandigarh on 30 January, a senior environment ministry official said.

The meetings will be attended by various stakeholders including scientists, agriculture experts, farmers’ organisations, consumer groups and NGOs who have been opposing the genetically modified brinjal.

Genetically modified food is that which undergo genetic modification by gene transfer making it pest-resistant.

The meetings are being held in view of a controversy over the decision of Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) allowing commercial cultivation of Bt brinjal.

Ramesh had after the controversy decided to hold the meetings on the issue.

It is being promoted by Mahyco Monsanto biotech, joint venture between Hyderabad based Mahyco and US-based Monsanto, along with University of Agriculture Sciences, Dharawad, and Tamil Nadu Agriculture University, Coimbatore.

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Published: 11 Jan 2010, 02:22 PM IST
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