Bug worry: A cotton field in Haryana. A rise in the number of pests will mean more insecticides and may also raise input costs. India’s cotton productivity has fallen over the past three years.

Reports recently surfaced of cattle in the Indian province of Andhra Pradesh [dying](http://www.irishseedsavers.ie/newsdet.php?newsid=60) after allegedly eating ...

ADOPTION of genetically-modified (GM) crops is a controversial issue the world over as regards its benefits and cost of cultivation. Genetically-modified seeds have some merits and demerits which need ...

Ithaca, N.Y. -- Although Chinese cotton growers were among the first farmers worldwide to plant genetically modified (GM) cotton to resist bollworms, the substantial profits they have reaped for ...

Growing cotton that is genetically modified to kill insects improves the livelihoods of small-scale farmers more than conventional varieties, according to a new study. Researchers found farmers ...

Cotton farmers in Marathwada should explore options beyond Bt cotton seeds as the costs of cultivating the genetically modified variety were higher, but with no added productivity, profitability or ...

Bt cotton was developed specifically to control bollworms, the most destructive of cotton crop pests. It has been under commercial cultivation since 1996 in the US and several other countries, and in ...

The two cotton-growing centers could hardly differ more. But small farms in India and industrial fields in Arizona both provide case studies that show the bright side of a widespread genetically ...