Judge authorizes GMO corn planting in Mexico

A Mexican judge authorized this week the planting of genetically-modified corn for the purposes of experimental and pilot, but not yet for the commercial circuit. In practice, the Mexican court lifted a suspension of an authorization that allowed the experimental planting of the cereal, after an appeal by the AgroBio Mexico organization.

According to the decision, the experimental GMO corn crops in Mexico do not generate risk of contamination for the native seeds of the cereal. “There are measures of contention that limit the contact of the transgenic corn with population and the natural environment,” says the document divulged by the court.

The organization AgroBio México, which evaluated the precedent as positive, is integrated by the companies Monsanto, Syngenta, Dow AgroScience, DuPont Pioneer and Bayer CropScience. The injunction against the permissions was promoted in August of 2015 by the Civil Corn Collective, an association of Mexican NGOs.