Bangalore, Jan 23 (IANS) Even as the union environment ministry is considering whether or not to allow the cultivation of Bt Brinjal, Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa Saturday said his state, a major producer of the vegetable, will not allow it as “it will sound the death knell for farmers”.
Yeddyurapppa told reporters on the margins of a function here he had informed the central government that Karnataka would not agree to commercial cultivation of Bt Brinjal.
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