Most scholarship on the closely-watched case of genetically modified Bacillus thuringiensis
(Bt) cotton in India has focused on short-term impacts and has also ignored other major …

A groundbreaking application of biotechnology research during the recent past has been
improvement of crop health and production. India being one of the most rapidly develo** …

Crisis provides opportunities for social and environmental reorganization. States claimed
responsibility for much agrarian development during the first half of the 20th century through …

This paper is a critique of Srivastava and Kolady1 who reported a macro analysis of the
benefits of Bt cotton in India using state wide average data. The analysis is in error with …

More than a decade has passed since Bt cotton was introduced in India. It is now possible to
use official cotton statistics to assess whether Bt cotton has had positive effects on farmers' …

Cotton is the most promising crop in Indian agriculture in terms of its contribution to the
country's agricultural gross domestic product as well as in creating gross employment and …

Though it is almost two decades since it was first introduced for commercial cultivation, the
scientific community seems not to have reached a consensus yet on the success or failure of …

The present study attempts to analyse the major changes in cost structure in rainfed and
irrigated cotton producing states of India and identify the forces governing changing cost …

Abstract Since 1996, transgenic Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton has been commercially
grown in numerous countries in an effort to stem the losses caused by key lepidopteran …

This chapter uses the USA and India as case examples to analyse how ethical tensions
arise related to agricultural biotechnology policy and how institutional framework and …