ICAR rejects ‘motivated, baseless’ charges over genome-edited rice
The New Indian Express Anantapur
|October 31, 2025
THE Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has dismissed allegations made by independent researchers that scientific evidence contradicts ICAR’s assertions about a major increase in rice production following the introduction of two gene-edited rice varieties earlier this year.
Researchers under the banner of the Coalition for a GM-Free India had alleged that ICAR and the Ministry of Agriculture were misled into making exaggerated claims about the success of genome-edited rice.
This story is from the October 31, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Anantapur.
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