Conversations About Plant Biotechnology | Biotech Crops



After a decade of use on more than one billion acres worldwide, plant biotechnology delivers proven economic and environmental benefits, a solid record of safe use and promising products for our future.

• 8.25 million farmers – 90 percent of whom farm in developing countries – choose to plant biotech crops. • International regulatory standards for GM crops are affirmed by a decade of safe use. • 63 countries are conducting plant biotech research across 57 different crops. • Farmers have decreased pesticide applications by 172,000 metric tons. • GM crops benefit the environment and conserve natural habitat for wildlife. • Farmers growing biotech crops increased their income by $27 billion.		• A century of discoveries and scientific research make plant biotechnology possible. • Farmers harvested the one billionth plant biotech acre in 2005. (chart) • Cumulative Global Impacts of Plant Biotechnology (table) • Impacts of Plant Biotechnology - By Crop Trait (table) • Measurement Conversions • Sources

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