GMOs in India GMOs in India describes market for Genetically
Modified Organisms (GMOs) in India, including policies that
allow or ban them. Bt Eggplant in India India, a country that is
home to incredible biodiversity of eggplant, was one of three
countries targeted by a USAID-funded effort to develop and
commercialize genetically engineered Bt eggplant (known as Bt
brinjal in India). According to a 2010 leaked memo from the U.S.
State Department: - "The product in question is a GM eggplant
developed by the Maharashtra Hybrid Seed Company (an Indian seed
company known as Mahyco, which is 26 percent owned by Monsanto),
Tamil Nadu Agriculture University (TNAU), and the University of
Agriculture Sciences (UAS) Dharwad, using a trait from the
Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) bacterium (cry1Ac, a genetic event,
which was developed by Monsanto) that makes the eggplant
resistant to the fruit and shoot borer, a common insect pest.
USAID, through its Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project II
(ABSP II) led by Cornell Un