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Which countries have the world's most GMOs

The International Organization for Biotechnology in Agriculture (ISAAA) has published an annual report on the prevalence of GMOs in the world.

The International Organization for Biotechnology in Agriculture (ISAAA) has published an annual report on the prevalence of GMOs in the world. Over the past 2011 sown area under GM crops increased by 8 %, or 12 million hectares , reaching 160 million hectares. This means that today about 12 % of the world's arable land is used for GM crops . Transgenic crops - most aggressively spreading technology in the history of modern agriculture.As the founder of ISAAA said Clive James , for 16 years of the development of biotechnology in the agricultural sector , the world's land area is occupied by GM crops increased from 1.7 million hectares in 1996 to 160 million hectares last year.
Currently Biotechnology represented in 29 countries , including 19 developing countries and 10 industrialized .
The highest rates of area under GM - grown cultures of the developing countries in the past year they increased by 11 % - up to 8.2 million hectares, while in developed countries, the rate of land were two times lower and amounted to 5 % , increasing to 3.8 million hectares.
Among developing countries , the leaders in the introduction of biotechnology in agriculture are Brazil , Argentina , China , India and South Africa .
However, in the ISAAA report notes that the U.S. continues to remain a leader in the introduction of GM crops in agriculture. Under the GMO in the U.S. given 69 million acres of land. In second place is now in Brazil , which under GM crops occupied 30.3 million hectares of land.
Moreover, in Brazil last year, the number of arable land, which is grown GMO increased by 4.5 million hectares , or 20 %. It should be noted that the dynamics of the spread of GMOs in the world last year slowed down a little bit .
For example, in 2010, under the GMO crops were allocated 148 million hectares - that's 10 % more than in 2009 . At the fastest pace in addition to South America, adopt biotechnology in India, where more than 10 million hectares given over to the GMO in China until about 4 million hectares in Pakistan and 3 million hectares.

The report also notes that to biotechnologies in developing countries often resort poor farmers living in developed countries. Many developed countries limit the spread of transgenic crops.

In Europe and in Ukraine, only a few are allowed to grow GM varieties of corn and soybean technology . Since 2010, the total area of biotech crops in the European Union began to fall sharply in the EU intend to continue to tightly control these crops.