The Union government is drawing up a comprehensive programme to introduce transgenic technology to improve the productivity of pulses. [...] Bidyut Saramah, a scientist at the Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, has developed Bt chickpea, under a project funded by the department of biotechnology. ”Though the Bt gene integrates well into chickpea, they don’t grow very well. We are still trying to figure out,” he said at the biotechnology conference, while presenting his research findings.