The Indian government confirmed plans, according to which field tests with 170 genetically changed sorts from altogether 41 plant types are intended. That announced Greenpeace India. To be cultivated are also 25 sorts gene rice. One of it cultivates the German Bavarian company. Under police protection.
Greenpeace Aktivisten and other environmentalists had stormed the experimental field in the proximity of the Indian city Hyderabad and it by Vogelscheuchen and transparencies had marked. Alarmed of Bavarian if the police proceeded against the demonstrators and 35 humans, under it also medium representatives as well as the well-known actress arrested Amala Akkineni, the newspaper Ecologist reported. An accusation expects the concerning because of disturbance of domestic peace, damage and compulsion. Greenpeace reproached to Bavarian an explanation of 2004. Therein the company assured to do without attempts of cultivation of gene rice in India. Greenpeace referred to the impurities through Bavarian gene rice 2007 in the USA and warned of the fact that India was extremely endangered as largest rice exporters by such cultivation attempts.
Monsantos Indian daughter Mahyco cultivates Jharkhand gene rice in the Federal State. The organization of genes Campaign accused to the company that its Bt-rice already genetic engineering-free rice in the region around the experimental field contaminated. The field injures all official defaults for the cultivation of gene plants. Jharkhand is considered as one of the origin regions of the cultivation of rice, where still numerous old sorts are cultivated. Several Indian Federal States forbade cultivation attempts in the meantime.