U.S. GM Cultivation Reaches 60 Million Hectares
July 4, 2008| |
In 2008, genetically modified crops were cultivated on almost 60 million hectares in the United States, according to the statistics published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This represents a growth of ten percent in comparison to last year’s. GM soybeans now comprise 92 per cent of total soybean cultivation in the country, with the area planted to the crop rising from 23.6 million hectares in 2007 to 27.7 m ha this year. An increase of more than 95 percent has been recorded in the states of Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, South Dakota and Nebraska.
The area dedicated to GM maize, on the other hand, has remained almost unchanged (from 27.4 to 27.7 million hectares) because of a general reduction in the maize area. Nonetheless, cultivation of GM types increased by seven percentage points and now represents 80 percent of all planted maize.
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