Brazil has the Highest Rate of Adoption of Transgenics in Its History.

Three quarters of the area farmed with soybeans and more than half of the area planted with corn use GM seeds in the 2010/11 season, according to the 2nd issue of study performed by Celeres. Three out of every four hectares planted with soybeans in Brazil in 2010/11 crop season were sowed with genetically modified seeds (GM), as reveled by the 2nd Monitoring of the adoption of agricultural biotechnology in Brazil, carried out by Celeres consulting company.

Considering also the area cultivated with transgenic summer corn seeds, winter corn and cotton, this is the highest rate of adoption of transgenics in the history of the national agriculture. And, according to Celeres, it tends to increase even more over the next years.

In the case of soybeans, for the current crop season Celeres forecasts that 18.1 million hectares are planted with transgenic herbicide‐tolerant soybeans, which represents 76.2% of the total area sown with the oilseed. "Farmers are encouraged by a favorable scenario in quotes and must sow 23.7 million hectares with soybeans in the 2010/11 season," says Anderson Galvao, director of Celeres.

 

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