subject: Our Timely Development Of Genetically Modified Soybeans Is Not A Lesson - Soybeans, Genetically [print this page] Experts believe that the international Financial Crisis and food security challenges, China should accelerate the industrialization of transgenic crops to alleviate the increasingly prominent "food hunger."
Global planting of transgenic crops in 25 countries, 12 varieties, 125 million hectares of planted area
Produced in the last century 80's GM technology is a biological species to the gene itself is not transferred through a special operation to the living body to produce the protein encoded by the gene products, changes in the biological characteristics of species have been to increase crop yields and improve their quality objectives.
International Agri-biotech Applications Service Organizations (ISAAA) recently released the world's transgenic crop breeding industrial development of the latest statistics: In 2008, commercial cultivation of GM crops has increased to 25 countries, and another 30 countries approval of GMO imports or trial, involving corn, soybean, cotton, and other 12 kinds of crops, the total cultivated area has reached 125 million hectares, compared with the initial industrialization increased 74 times in 1996, 12 years, total cultivated area has more than 800 million ha.
Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Researcher Huang "P explained that after 20 years of efforts, our country has taken shape from the basic research, applied research to product development of GM crops breeding system. To cotton to cases, with independent intellectual property rights research and development of transgenic cotton is the development of China's independent agricultural genetically modified technology to break the monopoly of the examples of multinational companies. According to incomplete statistics, Bt cotton developed more than 10 years, the state invested a total of about 3.0 billion yuan. As of the end of 2007, were audited 155 cotton varieties, promote the use of an area of 3.8 million ha, to reduce chemical pesticide use about 80 million tons of cotton farmers in increasing production and income accumulated more than 30 billion yuan.
Not timely development of China a Lesson in transgenic soybeans, domestic soybean processing already dominated by multinational corporations
It is understood that since the last century, China is to allow genetically modified crops grown commercially since the attitudes and actions of our government has been cautious so far, only approved GM cotton, tomatoes, sweet pepper, petunia, poplar and papaya , but not yet approved any genetically modified staple food crops. So far, only a crop of genetically modified cotton which has been widely planted in rice, corn and soybeans and other transgenic crops in commercial front, China has been hesitant.
Huang "P said, in transgenic soybean research and development and domestic and international grain market competition, China actually has a very profound lesson.
He said that China is the origin of soybean country, once great country is the world's soybean production and export of power, but because of years of scientific research and production of soybean lack of support, especially in recent years, the development of transgenic soybean ignored, resulting in China's soybean technological level and production capacity of a serious decline, more than 1,000 tons of annual output only and can not meet the domestic Cooking oil And the rapidly growing demand for feed products.
The multinational monopoly in recent years to develop and herbicide-resistant transgenic soybean core technology, which not only benefit soybean weed control hazards, and a more superior characteristics of high oil content. Transgenic soybeans were not attention to this high-tech country, and wanted to develop genetically modified crops do not excuse the use of "green bi-base" will be shut out of foreign GM products. However, after joining the WTO, no longer able to stop the multinational market expansion, overseas transgenic soybean quality, such as flood, in 2007 the number reached 34 million tons, more than 2 times the domestic production, accounting for half of global soybean trade volume , domestic soybean processing has been dominated by multinational companies.
"Genetically modified soybeans lesson tells us that we have to develop and master the core technology of genetically modified, to improve agricultural technology innovation, promote upgrading the agricultural structure in order to guarantee sustained growth in agriculture.
