Steep Biotech Rise, More Jobs?

Written by WTJ on January 27, 2008 – 2:20 pm -

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.

A Cambodian woman harvests rice in Battambang province, about 200 miles northwest of Phnom Penh, Thursday, Jan. 17. Cambodia produced some 6.4 million tons of rice crop during last year’s rice farming season, representing a surplus of 2.3 million tons, according to the Agriculture Ministry’s statistics. - Heng Sinith/Associated PressThe 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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