"Oz" wrote in message
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Jim Webster writes
"Oz" wrote in message
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Torsten Brinch writes

"The plants have grown copiously and even borne large-sized corncob,
(but) to the shock of our farmers, they have no grains within them,"
he said.

Happens sometimes with wheat varieties, too.

the joy of agriculture

Every so often a new variety bombs out and is never grown again.

Not at all uncommon.

I can
remember one lot of court cases in the UK not so long ago,

Indeed, a wheat that didn't set seed due to rain during flowering (or
something like that). Just by chance it hadn't happened during the three
or four years of trials.

and then there
are varieties which are just quietly forgotten because they don't live up
to
expectations

Yeah, tell me about it.

what does amuse me, in a darkly ironic way, is a lot of people are getting
all excited about an Indian crop failure who never gave a tuppenny damn
about india, crops or weather before GM. I wonder how many of them ever
bothered posting when a conventional Indian crop fails?

Jim Webster

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