Sentences with phrase «biotech crops»
"Biotech crops" refers to plants that have been genetically modified using biotechnology techniques to have specific desired traits, such as resistance to pests, diseases, or drought, or to improve their nutritional content. Full definition
The year 2005 marked the tenth anniversary of large - scale cultivation of biotech crops, with more than a billion cumulative acres of production.
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In 2005 more than 90 percent of the 8.5 million farmers who grew biotech crops were small farmers in developing countries.
But they had not taken a broad look at what the impacts have been on farms that grow biotech crops.
«Inspired by the success of the country's first commercially released biotech crop in 2013, Bangladesh is now field testing three more crops developed through applications of agro-biotechnology, including Golden Rice.
«Inspired by the success of the country's first commercially released biotech crop in 2013, Bangladesh is now field testing three more crops developed through applications of agro-biotechnology, including Golden Rice.
An encouraging development is the recent commercialization of biotech crops producing a novel type of Bt protein called a vegetative insecticidal protein, or Vip.
His support for biotech crops and ethanol production was met with screams of horror from the organic crowd, while others took a more balanced view and felt that Vilsack's support for the family farmer makes him a candidate worth supporting.
Their combined area of biotech crops covers over 100 million hectares and the EU is becoming increasingly dependent on their exports such as soya.
The caterpillar pest Helicoverpa zea (also known as cotton bollworm and corn earworm) has evolved resistance to four Bt proteins produced by biotech crops.
The team has been conducting field trials for over a year in Australia, and expects to test the technology on Ugandan soil this year, making the banana the first biotech crop to be field tested there.
«Pest resistance to biotech crops surging: A new global assessment helps scientists explain why cases of pest resistance to genetically engineered crops increased by more than fivefold in the past decade, yet some pests remain suppressed.»
While the European Union has spent some $ 400 million in the past 25 years on biotech crop research, the vast majority has gone toward risk - assessment studies and not improving the crops themselves.
«The Plant Pest Act was completely inappropriate for regulating biotech crops, but the USDA jury - rigged it,» says Bill Freese, science - policy analyst at the Center for Food Safety in Washington DC.
The current delay in timely approvals of biotech crops like golden rice with benefits for millions is a moral dilemma where the demands of regulatory systems have often become the end and not the means.»
According to the report, Burkina Faso, Egypt and possibly Vietnam are the next mostly likely countries to approve biotech crops.
«There is no scientific basis for believing that out - crossing from biotech crops could endanger maize biodiversity.
In the U.S. and Europe, the only players that can navigate the system are the very biggest players, so the activists have created a situation where only corporations can afford to commercialize biotech crops.
The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) in Washington, D.C., lauded the report as affirming the safety of biotech crops, but Gregory Jaffe of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) says the recommendations don't go far enough.
Twenty - one countries — including Spain, Germany, Portugal, France and the Czech Republic — are commercially growing biotech crops.
We believe that the broad regulatory authority available to you has been ignored, in order to justify deregulation of a biotech crop that has limited utility to anyone except the manufacturer.
March 6 2018 - DHAKA, BANGLADESH — H.E. Matia Chowdhury, Minister of Agriculture for Bangladesh today acknowledged the positive impact of biotech crops and their potential to help Bangladesh meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of zero hunger by 2030.
It is malicious and deceptive to refer to GM crops as «biotech crops».
«Entomologists update definitions to tackle resistance to biotech crops, pesticides.»
«We have really focused on the safety of our biotech crops, growing on more than a billion acres,» Padgette says.
This devastating pest quickly evolved resistance to genetically modified cotton in India, but not in the southwestern United States where a coordinated resistance management program has been in place since the biotech crop was introduced in 1996.
But analysts have expressed doubt over the long - term prospects of biotech crops, because of consumer worries over their safety and ecological impact (Science, 26 November, p. 1662).
However, many benefits — such as improvements to water quality — need to be better quantified, and some biotech crops are threatened by the evolution of herbicide - resistant weeds.
Economist Dermot Hayes of IowaStateUniversity in Ames says he's optimistic that new types of biotech crops and management will solve the problem of resistance, but Benbrook is less sanguine.
The first generation of biotech crops has provided significant economic, environmental and grower benefits, and the next generation of biotech crops will provide much broader benefits.
Studies by the US National Academies and Britain's Royal Society of Medicine found no evidence that biotech crops are unsafe to eat.
In the winter of 1983, three teams presented breakthroughs at the same biochemistry conference in Miami, work that ultimately led to the biotech crops that now dominate commodity agriculture.
What is not in question is that these biotech crops will be emerging not just from the United States and Europe, but from the developing world.
Kenya, Uganda and many other African countries had the chance to follow South Africa's example of adopting genetically engineered (GE) crops — also called GM or biotech crops.
«However, the promises of biotech crops can only be unlocked if farmers are able to buy and plant these crops, following a scientific approach to regulatory reviews and approvals.»
March 6 2018 - DHAKA, BANGLADESH — H.E. Matia Chowdhury, Minister of Agriculture for Bangladesh today acknowledged the positive impact of biotech crops and their potential to help Bangladesh meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of zero hunger by 2030.
By Mateusz Perkowski, Capital Press Monarch butterflies are declining in number due to herbicide spraying related to biotech crops, environmental groups claim.
The Food and Drug Administration, which is responsible for evaluating the safety of biotech crops, has deemed many genetically engineered crops safe to eat.
For instance, Bailey cites studies showing that biotech crops have produced $ 120 billion in economic gains for farmers over the past 20 years while sparing 300 million acres — an area almost twice the size of Texas — from being converted to agricultural land.
He said genetically modified or biotech crops» opposition in Europe is also subsiding as relevant scientific data is convincing more and more anti-biotech campaigners there to admit the fact that agricultural biotechnology is safe and should be fully deployed in order to ensure sufficient food for growing population.