Paraguay Biotech Annual Report
February 25, 2011| |
The US Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service GAIN has released the Paraguay Biotechnology Annual Report. Paraguay has only Roundup Ready (RR) soybean as a commercially approved biotech crop. Soybean, however, is one of two main agricultural exports, the other being cotton. The country remains to be the seventh largest soybean producer in the world producing 2% of global production.
For more information about biotech in Paraguay read http://gain.fas.usda.gov/Recent%20GAIN%20Publications/Biotechnology%20-%20GE%20Plants%20and%20Animals_Buenos%20Aires_Paraguay_1-24-2011.pdf
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