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Brazil: GMO adoption rate increased by 4.7% in 2014
Jan. 29, 2015
Nearly 42.2 million hectares were planted with genetically-modified seeds in Brazil in 2014. The number represents an increase of 4.7% compared to the previous year, according to the data released by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Application (ISAAA) this Wednesday.
The report positions Brazil in second place when ranking the use of biotechnology. The country is second only to the United States (73.1 million hectares), followed by Argentina (24.3 million hectares), India (11.6 million hectares), Canada (11.6 million hectares) and China (3.9 million hectares).
All over the world, 28 countries planted 181.5 million hectares with genetically-modified seeds, an increase of over 6 million hectares compared to 2013. The survey also reveals GMOs are the fastest agricultural technology to be absorbed in recent agriculture history.
"The planted area with GMOs in the last harvest is around 100 times bigger that what was registered in 1996, the first year that they were planted; this shows how much the farmer and the society receives the benefits and the safety of this technology," said Anderson Galvão, representative of ISAAA in Brazil.
In Brazil, the GMO adoption rate was 89.3%, considering soybean, corn and cotton have been approved in the country. In the case of soybean, 93% of the planted area was planted with transgenic varieties , for corn the rate was 82% and cotton 66%.
Source: AgroNews
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