India soon to make GM mustard stance public, develop more varieties

By Krishna N. Das and Mayank Bhardwaj NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The Indian government will soon make public its stance on allowing the commercial cultivation of genetically modified (GM) mustard - what could be its first transgenic food crop - and "ideology" will not influence the decision, a minister said. The mustard variety has been developed by a group of New Delhi scientists over the past decade, and Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave said India would also come up with other GM food as its p