01.02.2011 | permalink
Kerala is split when it comes to the genetically modified. While the government has consistently taken a position against anything GM, and has vowed to keep the state GM-free as a matter of policy, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which rules the state, has quite the opposite view. The differences have now come into the open in the wake of recent approval from the genetic engineering approval committee of the Union ministry of environment & forests for GM rubber.