undoubtedly mahyco monsanto biotech india is the market leader as it was only one with government s permission to sell bt cotton in 2003 04 its bollgard sales were close 216 000 packets during year business on account of royalty and co licensing rs 54 crore seeds tune 36 though allowed illegal too found their way into farms exact area field cultivation not available farmers be using hybrid sold under different brands when central institute research cicr nagpur carried out pcr elisa tests these confirmed that they had tested positive for presence cry 1 ac gene approved by regulator genetic engineering approval committee geac but estimates cultivated nearly 92 hectares this july approvals trials commercial production several hybrids given has also large scale seed 12 varieties
