Agricultural Biotechnology Ten Years on: Lessons from the Past ant Potential for the Future
Journal
Symposium on Taiwan-America Agricultural Cooperative Projects
Pages
1-7
ISBN
986-00-2844-3
Date Issued
2005-11-15
Author(s)
Martina Netwell-McGloughlin
Abstract
Since the first biotech crop was commercialized in 1996, today, theses crops are grown commercially by 8.25 million farmers on 200 million acres in 17 countries, and research and development is being conducted in another 45. The global commercial value of biotech crops grown in the 2003-'04 crop year is US$44 billion, 98% from five countries, US, Argentina, China, Canada and Brazil, growing one or more of biotech crops: soybeans, cotton, corn and canola. Although North America leads in research, more than half of the 63 countries engaged in biotech research, development and production are developing countries. The first generation of such crops focused largely on input agronomic traits, the next generation will focus more on value-added output traits. In the next decade some studies estimate the global value of biotech crops will increase nearly fivefold to $210 billion.
Event(s)
Symposium on Taiwan-America Agricultural Cooperative Projects
臺美農業合作成果發表研討會
Subjects
biotechnology
Worldwide adoption
agronomic traits
Output traits
Publisher
Agricultural Research Institute, Council of Agriculture
Type
conference paper
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