Planting of Genetically Modified Crops Increases

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Clive Cookson, Planting of Genetically Modified Crops Increases 8% Around the World. Financial Times, Feb 8, 2012 (title in print)
www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3562e8f8-4b44-11e1-a325-00144feabdc0.html
("US remains the world leader in agricultural biotechnology, with 69m hectares planted with GM crops, a 3 per cent rise, and much the largest research and development activity. * * * And 90 per cent of their production [ie, production of maize, soyabean, cotton and canola (oilseed rape)] in the US is now GM.

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(b) The quotation above says that in 2011 US had 69m hectares planted with GM crops, a 3 per cent rise" year-on-year. The comparable figures in 2011 for the whole world (including US) were "160 million hectares, up 12 million hectares on 8% growth, from 2010." See next.
(c) The report cites

Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops: 2011. International Service for the Acquisition of Agribiotech Applications (ISAAA), Feb 7, 2012 (ISAAA Brief 43-2011)
http://www.isaaa.org/resources/p ... summary/default.asp
(executive summary)