Although GM crops are facing various kinds of disturbances, “After 15 years of commercialization, the cumulative global genetically modified crops have occupied more than 1 billion hectares in 2010,†the International Agriculture and Technology Industry Application Service Center (ISAAA) published an annual report. If it is stated.
Does this mean that GM crops have begun to develop steadily? It may be that at the time of this speech, the opposing voices of the International Green and other organizations have passed their ear. Promotion or containment, planting genetically modified crops often requires a choice between two opposing attitudes.
According to the ISAAA report, 1 billion hectares of crops were planted in 2010 by 15.4 million farmers from 29 countries. From 1996 to 2010, the number of GM crops increased by 87 times. In 2010, genetically modified crops grown in developing countries account for 48% of the world's total, and by 2015 will surpass the industrial countries. As the commercialization of the technology continues to expand, Latin American and Asian countries will play the most important role in the growth of the global GM crop area.
The five major developing countries that plant GM crops are China, India, Brazil, Argentina, and South Africa. In 2010, a total of 63 million hectares of GM crops were planted, equivalent to 43% of the global total. According to the report, of the 29 countries that have adopted GM crops, 19 are developing countries. Compared with 2009, the growth rate of their planting area is 17%, that is, an increase of 10.2 million hectares, compared with that of industrial countries. The increase is 5%, or 3.8 million hectares.
Also, of the 15.4 million farmers who used GM technology in 2010, 14.4 million were small, resource-poor farmers from developing countries who were part of the world’s poorest people. China and India are the countries with the largest number of GM crops used by small-scale farmers, and 6.5 million and 6.3 million farmers in China and India are planting GM crop seeds. It is clear that GM crops are helping some of the poorest countries in the world to lift themselves out of poverty.
Therefore, this is one of the reasons why GM crops can be popular in developing countries. In addition, GM crops have also contributed to sustainable development and have helped mitigate climate warming, helping to reduce carbon emissions and save land.
Of course, in order to enable more small-scale and resource-poor farmers to grow GM crops, it is imperative that poor developing small and medium-sized countries develop responsible and strict regulatory systems. This aspect is a guarantee of absolute safety of biotechnology. On the other hand, it is also a necessary response to questioning genetically modified technology.
In the current global climate change caused by abnormal food production, rigid adhere to the so-called original ecological agriculture, organic agriculture, there is no doubt that we must assume a greater risk of food crisis.
After careful consideration, do developing countries bear the risk of promoting the cultivation of genetically modified crops?
In fact, in 2010, three countries first started planting GM crops for commercial purposes, while another country decided to continue planting GM crops. About 600,000 Pakistani farmers and 375,000 Burmese farmers planted insect-resistant genetically modified cotton (28480, -395.00, -1.37%), while Sweden planted the new transgenic high-quality starch potato that has been proved to be used in industry and feed, becoming the first A Scandinavian country that commercialized GM crops. In 2010, this transgenic potato was also grown in Germany and became one of the eight EU countries that planted genetically modified corn (2385, 0.00, 0.00%) or potato.
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