Farmer’s Dilemma: Repeated pesticide sprays?
9 to 14 days
Adult moth
Egg
Hatching Entry
MatureLarva
Pupation
Cocoon
Adult emergence
2 to 3 hours
3 days
7-9 days
Achilles’ Heel
Why Bt technology in brinjal?
or Bt technology?
Leapfrogging
Leapfrogging is a theory of development in which developing countries skip inferior, less efficient, more expensive or more polluting technologies and industries and move directly to more advanced ones.
Examples of leapfrogging?????
Leapfrog technologies
Solar power for rural communities in Pakistan.
The "Hospital of the Future" in Thailand World's Greenest Building, as voted by the US
Green Building Council, in Hyderabad, India Free broadband and Linux machines in Brazil: "Barefoot Solar Engineers" -- rural women
trained to install and repair solar power systems in India
Leapfrog technologies
Mobile phone use already exceeds land line use in India, and by 2007, 150 million out of the 200 million phone lines there will be cellular.
Bt brinjal in India under the auspices of DBT, Government of India/USAID/ABSPII. Possibly the first edible GM crop of this country