Bangalore, Jan 19 – India’s biotech ‘queen’ Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw of Biocon Tuesday appealed for considering the issue of Bt brinjal cultivation on a scientific basis and not on ‘unfounded fears’.
‘We would really like to ensure that we take this whole issue of Bt brinjal on a scientific basis and not on unfounded fears, creating a fear psychosis,’ Mazumdar-Shaw said at a conference on biotech event Bangalore India Bio, to be held June 2-4.
Mazumdar-Shaw, chairman and managing director of leading biotechnology firm Biocon, asserted that Bt ‘is a very safe science and regulated technology’.
A section of farmers in India and several civil society organisations are opposing introduction of Bt brinjal for commercial cultivation. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has now begun meeting them in a bid to remove their fears...
we have such great response from those great personalities.........so what would you guyz say? In future will the biocon queen prove wrong?
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