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Capital Press:

Clive James, a Canadian scientist who heads the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications, told a conference here last week that biotech crops will deliver significant financial gains for farmers in the U.S. and other developed countries but even greater humanitarian gains for the poor in developing countries.

The conference, sponsored by the Farm Foundation, assessed the impact of adoption of biotech traits in major field crops in 1996 in the U.S. and sought to predict their development in the coming decade across the globe.

“We believe that the growth you get in the second decade of commercialization will be even greater than what you got in the first decade,” he said.

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