During the past few years, crops raised through genetic modification technology have been gaining increasing acceptance in the developing countries. India experienced an unprecedented increase in Bt cotton acerage during 2006, increasing from 1.3 million hectares to 3.8 million hectares in one year. The success of Bt cotton has its foundation in partnerships comprising one company providing technology, another transferring the technology in Indian germplasm, and the third, the farming community that recognized the potential of insect resistant cotton and adopted the Bt hybrids with great enthusiasm. Over the past few years, similar partnerships for transferring the laboratory successes of biotechnology to farmers' fields have been developed among different sectors including public institutions, private companies, farmers' associations and NGOs. Golden Rice Humanitarian Board and ABSP II project on borer resistant brinjal are some of the prominent examples. However, it is also appreciated that more partnerships need to be built and impediments in the path of building partnerships overcome.
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