IT’S not what campaigners against genetically modified crops want to hear.
Not only are GM plants taking over China’s rice paddies and cotton fields, but
millions of poor farmers are benefiting as a result, according to a survey of
the country’s GM crop programme, the largest outside the US.
China’s government-employed biotechnologists have targeted many crops largely
ignored by big Western companies. And, unhindered by eco warriors, they are
moving swiftly from the lab to the field.
Scott Rozelle of the University of California at Davis and Jikun Huang from
the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing surveyed biotech labs…
