After Uttarakhand, Kerala has said a firm no to Genetically Modified (GM) seeds test in the state. Agriculture Minister Mullakkara Ratnakaran has conveyed the government stand in this regard in a letter to Federal Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar. He has urged the federal minister to declare the state as ’GM-free zone’. He said that the government would not allow the current move to permit a Maharashtra-based firm to do experimental cultivation of GM seeds in the northern district of Palghat, which is known as the rice bowl of Kerala.