Biotech Acres: Global Biotech Plantings Show Double-Digit Growth for 10th Straight Year

Biotech farm crops grew in 2006 by 13 percent over the previous year — the 10th straight year of double-digit increases, according to a new report from the nonprofit International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA). Biotech crops achieved a significant milestone in 2006: They were grown on more than 250 million acres around the world. An estimated 10.3 million farmers in 22 countries now plant biotech crops — up from 8.5 million farmers in 21 countries in 2005. About 9.3 million, or 90 percent, of these farmers are resource-poor from developing countries whose increased income from biotech crops contributed to their poverty alleviation, according to the report "Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops in 2006."... Whole article "whybiotech":[ www.whybiotech.com]

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