Biotech cotton has beaten pink bollworm eight years running, reports a team of scientists from The University of Arizona in Tucson. The unanticipated long-term success in the arms race between farmers ...

Arizona farmers receive the same yield/acre, use fewer chemical insecticides and maintain insect biodiversity when they plant the biotech cotton known as Bt cotton, according to new research. The ...

Ithaca, N.Y. -- Although Chinese cotton growers were among the first farmers worldwide to plant genetically modified (GM) cotton to resist bollworms, the substantial profits they have reaped for ...

After years of struggling with pest-infested Bt cotton and shrinking profits, a section of farmers in Punjab are turning back to a traditional crop with a modern promise — indigenous desi cotton — to ...

NEW DELHI -- India said on Wednesday it had allowed production of three genetically modified cotton hybrids by a private company which has U.S. biotechnology giant Monsanto as its partner. This is the ...

A Rift Valley Textiles (RIVATEX) employee works on one of the machines at the factory in Eldoret. [Kevin Tonui, Standard] "The amount of cotton produced across the country cannot meet our demand, that ...

The two cotton-growing centers could hardly differ more. But small farms in India and industrial fields in Arizona both provide case studies that show the bright side of a widespread genetically ...

Cotton is the only genetically modified (GM) crop that has been officially approved in India and has been cultivated (illegally then legally) in the country for more than 20 years. Although GM mustard ...

Early this week, President William Ruto waved a new cotton price card to farmers in Busia county in a drive aimed to win back the growers who had abandoned the crop. President Ruto said farmers would ...