Kranthi, acting director of the Central Institute of Cotton Research (CICR) in Nagpur, has warned that poor management of the technology has spawned an abundance of predictable and unexpected problems. The rapid adoption of GM cotton by farmers across the country has coincided with the rise of hitherto unknown insect pests, increased pesticide applications by farmers, and declining cotton productivity over the past three years, he has told the government. [...] ”Cotton is a tricky crop — we should have been more careful,” Kranthi said. ”There are lessons to be learnt from this experience for future genetically modified crops, brinjal or anything else,”