The Indian Government will submit shortly in a statement of principles their attitude to genetically modified crops, which are used as food. A mustard plant is to be approved soon. It would be the first transgenic fruit for human consumption in India.
This new mustard seed was bred by a group of Indian scientists in the last ten years and the Environment Minister Anil Madhav said, that will come soon with other genetically modified organisms (GMOs), to feed the increasing population although the usable cropland is shrinking.
The approval of GMO mustard seed is a paradigm shift in Indian politics. It is for the goal of Prime Minister Nerendra modes, with edible oils to achieve an independent supply of great importance. India spends currently around 12 billion dollars for imported edible oils. When the oil content of oil plants bring up to 30% more oil, that could very much relieve the State budget. But the way there is Rocky.
The opposition holds out against GMO varieties and even some party members of Prime Minister reject this kind of breeding, because it was developed mostly in Western countries and it could create a dependency.
In 2010, a moratorium on the approval of a GMO Eggplant has brought to case. Since in the year 2014, Prime Minister became modes, it has allowed a number of GMO field trials. As a former Prime Minister of the State of Gujarat, he had made the GMO cotton majority support. There is however a difference whether one has only one contact to the product or whether to eat it, says the Minister of the environment of the country. To gain the favor of the population for this project, a number of regulations will be.
The Government has the largest plant breeders in the world of Monsanto in the dispute over the height of the breeders licenses modes. Meanwhile, the U.S. company dominates the Indian market for will. And also the other big international seed companies in India fear an inflation of government regulatory measures that threaten their economic success now. Monsanto has already threatened to cancel its tents in India and to bring any other cotton varieties on the market. Monsanto India is largest market outside the United States. Monsanto claims that then the previously available crops against diseases will be vulnerable.
