GM crops increased 7% in 2009

Genetically modified crops continued to spread across the world in 2009, according to the most comprehensive annual survey of GM planting.

In 2009 the area of biotech crops increased by 7% to 134m hectares (330m acres) in 25 countries, the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications said on the 23 February 2010. Fourteen million farmers worldwide grew at least some GM crops.

Website: International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications http://www.isaaa.org/

ISAAA, Brief, No.41: Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops: 2009 http://www.isaaa.org/resources/publications/briefs/41/default.asp

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