Global Status

Dominant Biotech Crops in 2004

Herbicide tolerant soybean continued to be the dominant biotech crop grown commercially in nine countries in 2004; listed in order of hectarage, the countries were the USA, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Canada, Uruguay, Romania, South Africa and Mexico. Globally, herbicide tolerant soybean occupied 48.4 million hectares, representing 60% of the global biotech crop area of 81.0 million hectares for all crops. The second most dominant crop was Bt maize, which occupied 11.2 million hectares, equivalent to 14% of global biotech area and, like herbicide tolerant soybean, was planted in nine countries – USA, Argentina, Canada, South Africa, Spain, the Philippines, Uruguay, Honduras and Germany. It is noteworthy that Bt maize, deployed as a single Bt gene and in the stacked product Bt/HT, occupied a total of 15.0 million hectares compared with 12.3 million hectares in 2003, a year-to-year increase of 22%. The third most dominant crop was Bt cotton, up from sixth in 2003, which occupied 4.5 million hectares, equivalent to 6% of global biotech area and planted in eight countries, listed in order of hectarage; China, India, Australia, USA, Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, and Colombia.

Dominant Biotech Crops, 2004
Country
 
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
(mha)
Herbicide Tolerant Soybean
0.5
5.1
15
21.6
25.8
33.3
36.5
41.4
48.4
Bt Maize
0.3
3.0
7
7.5
6.8
5.9
7.7
9.1
11.2
Herbcide Tolerant Canola
0.1
1.2
2
3.5
2.8
2.7
3.0
3.6
4.3
Bt/Herbicide Tolerant Maize
--
--
--
2.1
1.4
2.5
2.2
3.2
3.8
Herbicide Tolerant Maize
0.0
0.2
2
1.5
2.1
2.4
2.5
3.2
4.3
Bt Cotton
0.8
1.1
1
1.3
1.5
2.1
2.4
3.1
4.5
Bt/Herbicide Tolerant Cotton
0.0
<0.1
--
0.8
1.7
1.9
2.2
2.6
3.0
Herbicide Tolerant Cotton
<0.1
0.4
--
1.6
2.1
1.8
2.2
1.5
1.5
Bt Potato
<0.1
<0.1
<0.1
--
--
--
--
--
--
Total
1.7
11
27.8
39.9
44.2
52.6
58.7
67.7
81.0
Source: Clive James, 2004.
 

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Related Topics:

  1. Global Area of Biotech Crops
  2. Distribution of Biotech Crops in Industrial and Developing Countries
  3. Distribution of Biotech Crops, by Country
  4. Distribution of Biotech Crops, by Crop
  5. Distribution of Biotech Crops, by Trait
  6. Dominant Biotech Crops
  7. Global Adoption of Biotech Soybean, Maize, Cotton and Canola
  8. The Global Value of the Biotech Crop Market

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