Letter to BS: Why is non-renewable GM mustard being pushed for field trial?

Bt toxin in GM foods is found to survive in the blood of pregnant women and foetuses

GM (genetically-modified) mustard is touted as something that is indispensable to raising productivity, especially in the face of climate change. However, cultivating GM mustard is not the only way to achieve this. There are alternatives that are both ecologically and economically beneficial. One of them is the organic and nursery-type-spacing technique of SRI that is, System of Root Intensification. This is being practised in Odisha, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, where it is giving an average mustard yield of 31 quintals per hectare and a maximum of 57 quintals per hectare, all of that is estimated to have the capacity