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GM crops

This refers to the report, "Concern over field trials of GM food" (Jan. 4). The multinational corporations, who find it difficult to carry out such trials in their home countries, are now using India as an experimental field. The move to legislate compulsory labelling of GM foods is welcome. Europe has already made this mandatory.

H.N. Ramakrishna,
Bangalore

India, where post-harvest losses of horticultural crops are reportedly as high as 30 per cent, certainly does not need GM crops for increasing productivity. Such trials must be discouraged till a consensus is evolved about how safe these crops are.

T.T. Krishnan,
Chennai

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