Volga Baikal AGRO latest News Update on Genetically Modified Wheat: Will there be the Future for such Wheat ???

Genetically Modified Wheat will be grown in Argentina

Volga Baikal AGRO latest News Update on Genetically Modified Wheat: Will there be the Future for such Wheat ???

Argentina became the first country in the world to approve the commercial use of the genetically modified wheat. Doesn’t this threaten Russia with the loss of the world leadership in the wheat export?

The wheat variety for which the permit has been issued is called HB4. The copyright for it is owned by the Argentine biotechnology company Bioceres, writes Reuters. The main feature of this cultivar is said to be drought tolerance, as sunflower genes are embedded in its genome.

In drought, HB4 is said to yield a quarter more than conventional wheat. However, most countries still fear GMOs. And these concerns are understandable, says an expert on organic agriculture, auditor of the independent German organization ABCert, which deals with eco-certification, Andrei Lysenkov.

The reason that genetically modified agricultural crops are prohibited in many countries is not at all the fear of the consequences of their use for people, but the fact that this can radically change the trade balance in the world food market, says Nikolai Lychev, editor-in-chief of the Agrotrend.ru portal.

In fact, the variety that Argentina has now decided to allow is not at all obvious to give serious advantages. The country is now doing something like an experiment on a full scale, says Andrei Sizov, director of the Sovekon analytical center.

According to other experts, the use of GMO varieties like HB4 is inevitable, as the planet is warming, and more frequent droughts. At the same time, the population of the Earth is growing at the rate of a billion people in 15 years. It is also reported that Argentine Bioceres is already in talks with Australia and Russia for a possible supply of seeds.

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