Media Release
GM Crops – The Most Rapidly Adopted Technology in Agricultural History
Statistics released overnight by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA) show that farmers around the world continue to adopt genetically modified (GM) crops at an unprecedented rate. 2010 was the fifteenth year that GM crops have been grown by farmers. In that time the use of GM crops has increased 87 fold, which makes GM crops the most rapidly adopted technology in agricultural history. In 2010 the area planted to GM…