Commercial cultivation of GM crops in India is approved for:
Commercial cultivation of genetically modified crops in India regulated under Environment Protection Act EPA 1986, Rules 1989, with Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee GEAC as apex body assessing biosafety, food and feed safety, environmental impact, gene flow to wild relatives and weedy relatives. Despite extensive confined field trials for Bt brinjal expressing Cry1Ac for fruit and shoot borer resistance, Dhara Mustard Hybrid DMH-11 incorporating barnase-barstar hybrid breeding system, and chickpea resistant to pod borer, only Bt cotton containing single or stacked Cry1Ac and Cry2Ab toxi
Ref: ISAAA Brief 58 India 2023; GEAC MoEFCC; Choudhary & Gaur Curr Sci 2020 India GM.
