A welcome shift

GM crops will boost yields

The statements made in Parliament and the deposition before the Supreme Court on the approval of the genetically modified (GM) mustard hybrid, DMH-11, seem to indicate a welcome shift in the government’s overall policy concerning GM crops. Rather than being ambivalent about permitting the commercial cultivation of transgenic crops, it now appears to have become their avid exponent. Defending the approval of GM mustard by the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC), the government has not only acknowledged it to be safe for cultivating for food and feed use but has gone a step further to assert that GM technology is