Luis Burzio, PhD, Biotech Reg Affairs Cotton Lead, Bayer Company

Q: Differenice between the methodsame used by india ,china,usa to increase productivity of bt cotton

Answered By Luis Burzio, PhD, Biotech Reg Affairs Cotton Lead, Bayer Company - May 09, 2019

A: Farmers in India, China and the US utilize Bt Cotton varieties within their farming practices.  According to the recent PG Economics report, these 3 countries have “close to or more than 90 percent adoption of biotech cotton”. For a deeper review on country/crop specific information in relations to biotech crops (or just Bt Cotton) grown around the world and the economic  and environmental benefits, I recommend these two reports: Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops: 2017 and GM crops: global socio-economic and environmental impacts 1996-2016.  See here for highlight [...]

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