{"id":35433,"date":"2018-10-31T17:23:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T11:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35433"},"modified":"2018-10-31T17:23:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T11:53:48","slug":"claims-on-bt-cotton-need-to-be-probed-says-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/claims-on-bt-cotton-need-to-be-probed-says-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Claims on Bt cotton need to be probed, says panel:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/claims-on-bt-cotton-need-to-be-probed-says-panel\/article19563187.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Claims on Bt cotton need to be probed, says panel<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Parliamentary panel headed by Congress MP Renuka Chowdhury in a report released on Friday said the government agencies have portrayed \u201ca rosy picture\u201d on Bt Cotton which is far removed from the truth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Key highlights:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The report of the Standing Committee on Science and Technology claimed that the government cited only overall cotton output and not the average yield in area.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India\u2019s cotton yields increased by 69% in the five years(2000-2005) when Bt Cotton was less than 6% of total cotton area, but by only 10% in the 10 years from 2005-2015 when Bt Cotton grew to 94% of the total cotton area.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The report slammed the government for its \u201ccasual\u201d approach to the need for a scientific study of GM crop impact on health.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The committee pointed that \u00a0two decades after introduction of GM crops in 1996, only six countries continue to account for over 90% of all GM crop area globally including U.S, Brazil, Argentina, Canada, China and India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of Agriculture conceded to the committee that herbicide-tolerant gene may escape through pollen into nearby farm and fields, to another GM or non-GM crops.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claims on Bt cotton need to be probed, says panel:\u00a0 Context: A Parliamentary panel headed by Congress MP Renuka Chowdhury in a report released on Friday said the government agencies have portrayed \u201ca rosy picture\u201d on Bt Cotton which is far removed from the truth. Key highlights: The report of the Standing Committee on Science&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/claims-on-bt-cotton-need-to-be-probed-says-panel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Claims on Bt cotton need to be probed, says panel:\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704894268},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}