A welcome shift | Enterprise Commonplace Editorials

The statements made in Parliament and the deposition earlier than the Supreme Court docket on the approval of the genetically modified (GM) mustard hybrid, DMH-11, appear to point a welcome shift within the authorities’s total coverage regarding GM crops. Quite than being ambivalent about allowing the business cultivation of transgenic crops, it now seems to have grow to be their avid exponent. Defending the approval of GM mustard by the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC), the federal government has not solely acknowledged it to be protected for cultivating for meals and feed use however has gone a step additional to claim that GM expertise is necessary for meals safety and import discount. This can be a clear endorsement of agricultural scientists’ opinion that genetic engineering expertise is important to satisfy the rising demand for farm merchandise, enhance farmers’ earnings by lowering their manufacturing prices, and face the challenges posed by pests, ailments, and local weather change.