Language: English
Publication Year: 2020
Since entering the market in 2014, Bt brinjal has helped smallholder farmers in Bangladesh achieve higher yields, a 60 percent reduction in pesticide costs and a six-fold increase in net returns. The crop has been so successful that the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service recently released a report that hailed Bangladesh as "a role model of acceptance and advancement of modern agricultural biotechnology."
Bt , GMO
Food Security
Agricultural Biotechnology , Agriculture , Science Communication
Bangladesh, Bt brinjal, GMO, Farmers income, Pesticide
Bangladesh
15 Apr 2020
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