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The regulatory approval for commercial cultivation of biotech cotton in USA, China, Australia, Mexico and Argentina was given as early as 1996, but it was not until 2002 and 2005, that it was approved in India and Brazil, respectively. Such trends of asynchronous approvals and late adoption are common with other biotech crops, too. There are several reasons: lack of regulatory system or framework, institutional capacity of risk assessment, overcautiousness of the public and governments, location-specific needs, intensive protests by anti-GM lobbies, and strengths of private sector breeding and R&D capacity.This study confines itself to examining the regulatory systems/frameworks and biosafety requirements in countries where biotech cotton is grown so as to understand the factors governing approvals, the lessons learnt in dealing with cultivation of the first generation of GM crops – genetically engineered (GE) cotton – and future trends.
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Tripathi, K.K., Rao, S.R. (2010). Regulatory Systems and Requirements for Genetically Engineered Cotton from Lab to Land. In: Cotton. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 65. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04796-1_11
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