The Donald Trump administration is exerting pressure on India to open up its market to American soyabean and maize, which are ...

Thanks to the ingenuity of Arizona farmers and scientists using environmentally-friendly methods, U.S.-grown cotton is free of its major non-native pest, the pink bollworm. The victory in the more ...

The pink bollworm, which is native to Asia, is thought to have hitched a ride into the US via seeds coming from Mexico, and into Mexico via seeds imported from Egypt around 1911. 1 The US government ...

By 1965, the pest was established in Southern California, Western Arizona and northwestern Mexico. A pink bollworm moth (about one-third-of-an-inch long) on a cotton boll. Alexander Yelich / UofA ...

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Nagpur: Seed dealers in Nagpur and Wardha — both predominantly cotton-growing belts — have called for a strike on Monday alleging that illegal herbici.

As the US tariffs deadline nears, trade talks with India remain stalled over its opposition to genetically modified animal feed imports.

The BG2 cotton is only resistant to the bollworm pest. However, the variety could not get formal approval from the govt as the trials were stopped midway by the Mahyco-Monsanto combine.