Admitting for the first time that genetically modified cotton may have had an adverse impact on the state's farming community, the Maharashtra government has ordered a socio-economic study of the Bacillus thuringiensis cotton by the country's leading independent institutes. The survey will be carried out by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and Instituteof Rural Management, Anand, and a report will be submitted to the state government in three months. ”Our system has failed to live up to the expectations of the farming community, which has suffered because of the introduction of a series of policy and technology measures in the past. It is time we studied what has led to a state's agrarian problems resulting from Bt,” said agriculture minister Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil.