Growing area of GM crops in Pakistan
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Last Update: 2012-02-10
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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In 2011, Brazil's GM crop planting area increased by 20% to 30.3 million hectares, the international agricultural biotechnology application service organization announced Tuesday This shows that the country's agricultural production is increasingly dependent on transgenic technology Anderson galwan, representative of the international organization for agricultural biotechnology application service in Brazil, said that Brazil is currently the second largest producer of genetically modified crops in the world, with the fastest growth rate of planting area, especially soybean, corn and cotton Last year, Brazil planted 20.6 million hectares of GM soybeans, an increase of 15.7% over the previous year Brazil has the largest planting scale of genetically modified soybeans, accounting for 68% of the planting area of all genetically modified crops Transgenic soybean production accounts for 82% of all soybean production in the country Last year, Brazil planted 7.3 million hectares of genetically modified corn, an increase of 24.7% over the previous year The planting area of transgenic cotton reached 600000 hectares, an increase of 50% over the previous year.
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