{"id":666227,"date":"2010-02-16T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18884161.post-852394440415165534"},"modified":"2010-02-16T17:03:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T22:03:18","slug":"indian-environment-minister-not-interested-in-improving-health-or-eliminating-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/666227","title":{"rendered":"Indian Environment Minister not interested in improving health or eliminating poverty?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian environmental minister&#8217;s decision to ban on GM eggplant, known as brinjal, is bad for farmers and bad to the environment and bad for health. This is best seen in the following article:<br \/>\u3000<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If the adoption of GE eggplant reduces the pesticide use by 52%, as is reported from the field trials of GE eggplant, that will result in a saving of Rs. 6844\/acre for hybrid growers and Rs.2784\/acre for OPV growers. Results from our study suggest that GE technology provides a good alternative to pesticide use for farmers in developing countries such as India.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kolady, D.E. &amp; Lesser, W. (2008)<br \/>Is genetically engineered technology a good alternative to pesticide use: the case of GE eggplant in India. International Journal of Biotechnology, 10, 2-3, pp 132-147<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/18884161-852394440415165534?l=gmopundit.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian environmental minister&#8217;s decision to ban on GM eggplant, known as brinjal, is bad for farmers and bad to the environment and bad for health. This is best seen in the following article:\u3000 If the adoption of GE eggplant reduces the pesticide use by 52%, as is reported from the field trials of GE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2NjB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}