ARGENTINE farmers have been experimenting with genetically modified soya (Â鶹´«Ã½, 17 April, p 40). They thought that, used together with potent herbicides, the GM soya would solve many of the country’s agricultural problems. Now the crop is being blamed for an environmental crisis threatening Argentina’s fragile economic recovery. As chair of the all-party Latin America group in Westminster, I asked environment minister Elliot Morley whether the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs was taking careful note of Argentina’s experience.
Morley replied that the scale and significance of the problems reported in Argentina are disputed, but as New…
