NEW DELHI: Former Cabinet secretary TSR Subramanian today said that he regrets having allowed Genetically Modified (GM) cotton in the country over two decades ago. 

“In 1990s, I introduced GM cotton in India. Twenty years later, I regret…I am responsible for suicide of thousands of cotton farmers,” Subramanian said at an panel discussion at a book launch function. 

Subramanian, a 1961 batch IAS officer, further said that most European countries and Japan don’t allow GM crops.