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The Current Measures Used by GM and Non-GM Crops in The EU Are Practically Feasible
Mar 19, 2015The current measures being implemented to ensure coexistence of GM and non-GM crops in the EU are practically feasible, both at farm level and along the supply chain, a new study by UK researchers has revealed. The new study, conducted ...
Tags: Coexistence Measures, GM crops, non-GM crops, Agriculture
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Chinese Lawmakers Are in The Process of Considering a Proposed Revision to Food Safety Law
Dec 24, 2014Chinese lawmakers are in the process of considering a proposed revision to the country’s Food Safety Law which would include the mandatory labelling of all goods containing Genetically Modified (GM) organisms. The central ...
Tags: GM crops, labelling procedure, Agriculture
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Cotton Production in Zimbabwe Is Likely to Increase by 31 Percent in 2013-14 Season
May 16, 2014Cotton production in Zimbabwe is likely to increase by 31 percent in 2013-14 season due to good rains in most parts of the country during the cotton growing season, the Cotton Growers Association has said, reports The Herald. Owing to ...
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Zambian Cotton Board Has Praised The Government's Policy
May 5, 2014The Cotton Board of Zambia has praised the Government’s policy of careful treading in adopting commercialization of biotech or genetically modified (GM) crops, reports Lusaka Times. Releasing a report on the global status of ...
Tags: Cotton Board, GM crops
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Frank Reese Rattles off Names of Chicken Breeds That Were Once Common
Jan 15, 2014Peering through a sunlit barn in rural Kansas, fourth-generation poultry farmer Frank Reese rattles off names of chicken breeds that were once common - Barred Rock, Dark Brahma, Ancona, Rhode Island Red, Dark Cornish. He points to an ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
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China Is Reviewing a New Application to Import Genetically Modified (GM) Corn
Dec 10, 2013China is reviewing a new application to import genetically modified (GM) corn after previous ones were rejected for the reason of insufficient application material, according to the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) on Friday. In March 2010, ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, modified corn
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US Announced a Ban on State Purchases of Vegetable Oil Processed From Imported Rapeseeds
Oct 31, 2013A ban on State purchases of vegetable oil processed from imported rapeseeds is to protect domestic farmers' economic interests and does not mean the government is concerned about the safety of genetically modified food, an industry insider ...
Tags: Oil, Agriculture, Food, vegetable oil
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EU Shows That The Organic Regulation Would Not Be Extended to Cover The Textiles Sector
Aug 28, 2013The European Commission, which is in the final stages of a review of the current European Union (EU) organic legislation, has decided that the legal basis of its organic regulation would not be extended to cover the textiles sector. ...
Tags: Textile Sector, Organic Regulation
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Do You Like Drink Gm Wine?
Aug 20, 2013Moonshining loses the bootlegger label Water the commodity gold of 21st century? Bless the bats of agriculture The world's wine grape vines are dying — falling domino style to the inexorable spread of bug or bacteria or unknown ...
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Monsanto Plans to Grow New Types of Genetically Modified Crops in The European Union
Jul 19, 2013United States agrochemicals firm Monsanto has terminated its plans to grow new types of genetically modified (GM) crops in the European Union over lack of prospects for cultivation in the region. The company said that it will drop all the ...
Tags: Monsanto, genetically modified
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The East African Country of Tanzania Plans to Start Growing Bt Cotton by 2020
May 10, 2013The East African country of Tanzania plans to start growing Bt cotton by 2020 once the Government aided research comes up with a solution to the existing red bollworm problem, Charles Kitwanga, Deputy Minister in the Vice President’s ...
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Tesco Is "Misleading" Consumers Over Its Scrapping of a Pledge to Only Rear Poultry
Apr 16, 2013Tesco is “misleading” consumers over its scrapping of a pledge to only rear poultry on soya feed that’s free of genetic modification (GM), say campaigners. Tesco’s Tim Smith said it was important to be upfront ...
Tags: Tesco, Agriculture, Food
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What Is GM Crops Evil?
Mar 26, 2013Farmscrapers are vertical farming on steroids No science in far left opposition to GMO foods Death, liberty, Cheetos, and the American way China is surging ahead with a research project aimed at identifying millions of genetic variations ...
Tags: GM Crops, GM Children, Agriculture
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There Are Some Measures to Solve Damascus Change for Anti-Gm Apostle Mark Lynas
Jan 10, 2013In a shot heard round the GM world,Mark Lynas,a pioneer in the anti-GM movement,came out as a full-fledged advocate of genetic crop modification. Speaking at a farming conference Jan.3,in Oxford,England,Lynas'blunt words served as both ...
Tags: GM, organic, farming system, anti-GM
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GM Crops Have More Harmful Effects Than Being Useful
Oct 10, 2012Genetically modified (GM) crops like Bt cotton do more harm than being thought of, according to an expert from the Small Planet Institute at Massachusetts in the US. At an event organized alongside CoP-11 (XI Conference of the Parties ...
Tags: Genetically modified crops, Bt cotton, bollworm, Rollefson, textile