India banned Bt brinjal in 2010 but, nine years on, the genetically modified (GM) crop is still in circulation, said activists on April 25, 2019. They cited the example of a farmer from Haryana’s Fatehabad who allegedly has been cultivating the crop for a couple of years now. Representatives of the Coalition for a GM-Free India also demanded immediate action from the central and state governments. Bt brinjals are sold in the local mandis like any other brinjal. At Rs 8 a piece, in fact, the GM seeds were exorbitantly more expensive than normal ones (that sell for Re 0.5-1). A farmer would need 3,000 such seedlings to sow an acre.
— source downtoearth.org.in | 25 April 2019