New Figures Show Increase in European GM Crop Cultivation
October 3, 2008| |
Latest figures released by the European Biotech Industry Association (Europabio) show that the area planted to genetically modified (GM) crops in Europe has grown by 21 percent since last year. The increase was noted despite the ten-year moratorium on new product approvals in the EU. Bt maize, which was approved in 1998, is the only GM crop grown in the region.
This year 107,719 hectares of GM maize was planted. The cultivated acreage of biotech crops increased over ten fold in Poland and Romania in 2008, doubled in Slovakia and increased substantially (68%) in the Czech Republic versus 2007. In Spain, where most of the EU’s biotech crops are grown, the cultivated acreage continues to increase, this year by 5 percent, after 11 years of planting.
Read the press release at http://www.europabio.org/articles/GBE/EuropaBio%20Press%20Release%20cultivation%20figures%202008_290908.pdf
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