Before the crucial hearing on 9th November on the interim report of the Court-appointed Technical Expert Committee in the GMOs PIL in the Indian Supreme Court, major farmers’ unions across the country have sent letters to the Court, urging it to put an end to field trials of GM crops. These include many of the biggest and most active farmer unions with many lakhs of farmers as members. [...] Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), in its letter to the court said “One of the primary concerns of the Bhartiya Kisan Union is the issue of unsafe Field Trials happening in the country. There have been several incidences of illegal Field Trials happening across various parts of the country, by biotech companies like Monsanto, Syngenta, Du Pont etc. and civil society groups and Farmer Unions have repeatedly expressed their dissent towards such unwanted activities.”