Related Keywords: illegal Herbicide-Tolerant (HT) GM cotton spread, licence to produce Bt Cotton seed which needed permission from the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Council, unauthorised sale of seeds by firms under multiple brands
Only a small number of companies had licence to produce Bt Cotton seed which needed permission from the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Council. “Our enquiries revealed that most of the firms do not have licence to produce the seed and that they are only permitted to co-market the product. Sale of the seed should be allowed only in the packaging of the original seed-producing company to enable the farmers know what they are buying” as quoted by Kiran Vissa of Rythu Swarajya Vedika
The leaders suggested the government to step in and do the needful
