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Jairam Ramesh faces ire of Andhra farmers over BT Brinjal issue in Hyderabad | Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh on Sunday faced the angry protests of farmers in Hyderabad over a move to produce the genetically
modified Bt brinjal. Protesters are demanding that the government reverse its
decision. Ramesh said this was the first time he was facing such an unbecoming
and unwarranted protes. Some scientists, academics, members of civil society groups
and farmers across India undertook a one-day fast on Saturday over this issue
He also faced a similar protest in Kolkata during the first public consultations
on the genetically modified Bt-Brinjal on January 13 when he turned up to hear
the opinions of scientists, farmers and research scholars on the issue. Consultations
are being held in Kolkata, Bhubaneswar , Hyderabad , Bangalore , Nagpur , Ahmedabad
and Chandigarh . Last year, Ramesh had promised additional consultations with
farmers' groups, NGOs, scientists and other stakeholders before the release of
Bt brinjal. BT brinjal is a transgenic brinjal created by inserting a gene cry1Ac
from soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis into brinjal. A US-based multinational
agricultural biotechnology corporation and a Maharashtra-based Indian company
market BT brinjal in India. |
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