'Socio-economic impact study for Bt brinjal not done' -Governance Now

'Socio-economic impact study for Bt brinjal not done'

Committee recommendation has been ignored, ministry documents show

PTI | February 12, 2010

Environment and Forests Minister Jairam Ramesh

Though commercial release of genetically modified brinjal has been put on hold, documents made public by the government suggest a proposed study to assess the vegetable's need and possible socio-economic impact on farmers was never done.

The Ministry of Environment and Forests, according to documents available on its website, had set up a Bt brinjal Technical Review Committee early in 2007.

The committee evaluated numerous comments from various stakeholders vis-a-vis the biosafety data generated by Mahyco - the company which developed Bt brinjal.

The committee recognised the need of a large scale socio-economic impact assessment study and set up a three-member sub-committee to evaluate whether there was any ground-level requirement for the genetically modified brinjal at all.

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