Archive for February 18th, 2008
This Year Critical for Australian Agriculture, So Greenpeace Sponsors Tour by Anti-GM Campaigner
Posted by jennifer, February 18th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Biotechnology
Comments: 5
Greenpeace have been running a campaign against the planting of new crop varieties in Australia since about 2001 as part of their global campaign against genetically modified (GM) food. The Australian campaign has been phenomenally successful with bans to prevent the planting of GM canola introduced in 2004 by most state governments.
The bans [...]
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Australian Agriculture Slipping in Adoption of New Crop Varieties
Posted by jennifer, February 18th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Biotechnology
Comments: 8
Over 114 million hectares of land was planted to GM crops in 23 countries in 2007. Poland and Chile were new additions with Chile producing GM for seed export and Poland grew Bt maize for the first time. The USA, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, India and China top the list in order of [...]
South Australian Government Ignores Recommendation to Lift Ban on GM Crops
Posted by jennifer, February 18th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Biotechnology
Comments: 2
On February 8, 2008, South Australian Premier Mike Rann and the Minister for Agriculture Rory McEwen announced a continuation of the ban on genetically modified plants. They can not be grown in South Australia.
In a media release Mr Rann said Cabinet has decided to maintain the current moratorium from growing GM canola in South [...]

