Top biotech city: Mumbai overtakes Bangalore

Mumbai outpaced Bangalore, with a margin of about Rs 200 crore (Rs 2 billion), to become India's top biotech city in terms of revenue while Bangalore-based bio pharmaceuticals major Biocon clocked......

Farmers rush for Bt cotton seeds

Farmers in India are getting obsessed with Bt cotton. There was huge rush from farmers for Bt cottonseeds in Adilabad district in Andhra Pradesh on Sunday, leading to police to lathicharge. Police......

India has 111 Bt cotton hybrids

Cotton farmers in India are going to get a bountiful of hybrids to select from this year onwards. To be precise, there will be 111 Bt cotton hybrids to choose from, after the by the Genetic......

7 more cos to commercially release Bt cotton seeds

Response to Bt cotton has been favourable and about seven more companies are preparing to release their genetically modified cotton hybrids for commercial use shortly, a study conducted by Rabobank......