Monsanto threatens to re-evaluate India biz over Bt cotton row

Monsanto Co, the world's biggest seed company, threatened to pull out of India on Friday if the government imposed a big cut in the royalties that local firms pay for its genetically modified (Bt)......

MRTPC issues notices to Monsanto

Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission on Thursday issued notice of enquiry against the US biotech major Monsanto and its fully owned Indian subsidiary Mahyco for ignoring its......

Monsanto, Greenpeace clash over GM brinjal

A case filed in the Delhi High Court will decide the fate of exclusive data shared by companies with the government. Companies, especially those in the pharmaceutical and agri-chemicals businesses,......

Bt cotton turns out to be a disaster for Indian farmers

The whitefly outbreak has intensified a debate over GM crops just as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office reviews a proposal to allow farmers to grow GM mustard. Image: Bhinder Kaur, widow of......