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ISAAA Report on Global Adoption of GM Crops in 2019 Now Available February 3, 2021
The full report on the global adoption of GM crops in 2019 authored by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications is now available.
According to
Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops: 2019 (ISAAA Brief No. 55), 190.4 million hectares of biotech crops were grown in 29 countries in 2019, contributing significantly to food security, sustainability, climate change mitigation, and upliftment in the lives of up to 17 million biotech farmers and their families worldwide. Double-digit growth rates in biotech crop areas were recorded in developing countries, particularly in Vietnam, the Philippines, and Colombia.
No Commercial Clearance For GM Crops In India Since 2006; Union Government s Policy Lacks Clarity, Say Experts
by M R Subramani - Dec 12, 2020 12:15 PM
A protester tears up a genetically modified (GM) oil seed rape plant at a demonstration against GM crops at a farm in Long Marsden in Warwickshire, England. (Sion Touhig/GettyImages)
Snapshot
âWhat is the use of reforms and providing freedom to market agricultural produce without giving growers access to the latest technology?â wonders an industry expert.
The Narendra Modi government seems to be constrained by ideological opposition to allowing modern technology in agriculture, especially permitting genetically-modified (GM) crops cultivation in the country.
On 19 August 2020, UK based biotechnology company, Oxitec, announced a landmark agreement on its website that will see Oxitec release some 750 million genetically modified male mosquitoes in the Florida Keys, US, across 2021 and 2022. The reason for the release of the mosquitos is to counter the spread of the female
Aedes aegypti mosquito, an invasive species that spreads dengue fever, Zika, chikungunya and yellow fever. The male of the species is relatively harmless, as it does not bite humans or other animals, living on fruit instead, while the female lives on a diet of fruit and human blood.
What Oxitec have done is create genetically modified male mosquitoes with a “self-limiting gene” that prevents possible female offspring from surviving once the genetically modified males mate with the wild females. Should the offspring be male, it will survive, but also carry a copy of the self-limiting gene, so that when it breeds, its female offspring will not survive. The goal is to