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ONE BILLIONTH BIOTECH HECTARE PLANTED IN 2010
Feb. 28, 2011
National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG) reports:
Just 15 years after commercialization, accumulated biotech crops exceeded 1 billion hectares in 2010, according to a report released this week by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA).
Though the acre is more commonly used in the United States, hectare is a common land measurement around the world. One billion hectares is about 2.4 billion acres, or the rough equivalent to the land area of the United States.
ISAAA said in the report that 15.4 million farmers, 90 percent of them small-holder farmers, in 29 countries are now using biotechnology, making it the fastest-growing crop technology in the history of modern agriculture.
In 2010, three nations grew biotech crops commercially for the first time - Pakistan, Myanmar and Sweden - and one nation, Germany, resumed planting.
A 10 percent increase in biotech hectarage was seen between 2009 and 2010 alone, the second highest annual hectare growth ever.
Developing countries grew 48 percent of global biotech crops in 2010 and are expected to exceed industrialized nations in their plantings of biotech crops by 2015.
More information from the report is at http://www.isaaa.org/resources/publications/briefs/42/default.asp.
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