(Beijing Comprehensive News) China has approved the import of eight types of genetically modified crops, including the first approved for 10 years. The industry hopes that China will come down or will import more types of genetically modified crops.
The China Agricultural and Rural Ministry issued a list of agricultural transgenic biological safety certificates on Friday (January 13).January 4th.
According to Reuters, Bayer Crop Science Company's Alex tolerance 苜蓿 has been submitted to the official approval of Chinese officials since July 2011, and now it has finally been approved.Headquarters in Washington and the world's largest biotechnology industry association biotechnology innovation organization said that biotechnology developers have been difficult to get import approval in China for a long time. This approval is a positive step to solve this problem.
This time it was approved, there was a herbicide rapeseed by Pioneer International Good Seed Company. It also waited for more than 10 years before importing it.
China is one of the largest agricultural markets in the world, but the official attitude towards genetically modified crops is cautious, the approval process is slow, and global seed companies have always been dissatisfied with this.
China so far only allows imported genetically modified crops for animal feed, and has not yet approved the planting of any major genetically modified grain crops.For example, this time it was approved by the sugar cane, rapeseed, and cricket for animal feed, and cotton for the textile industry.
Some analysts will import more types of genetically modified crops to China.In the first phase of the trade agreement signed by China and the United States in 2020, China promised to accelerate the opening of the domestic market. John Baize, president of John C. Baize Associates, said that China may see the approval as a good -looking posture and opening upDomestic planting more signs of genetically modified crops.
