Biotech Updates

UK Primary Producers Want GM Food as Priority in Research

June 20, 2013

The United Kingdom study Feeding the Future: Innovation Requirements for Primary Food Production in the UK to 2030 reported that the country's primary producers identified the development of  modern technologies and genetic modification (GM) as top two researches that should be prioritized in the UK. The said report set out the UK industry's top research and development focus for the first time.

Among the report's recommendations include encouraging joint innovation programs among levy bodies and other producer groups; attracting additional investment from funding agencies such as research councils, government departments, and the European Union; and including the producers in the decision making of the government departments, research councils, and where appropriate, academic and research institutes.

For more information, go to http://www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Supply-Chain/Make-GM-food-science-research-top-priority-producers.