More farmers around the world are planting biotech crops because they're producing better harvest, according to a delegation of international farmers who recently addressed a global biotech convention. And more hope to have access to them soon. Thierry De L'Escaille, who heads the European Landowners Organization, says even farmers in Europe want the technology as a tool to improve incomes:
"They are looking for improving their profitability, they are looking for sustainable use of their land. Spanish farmers look quite happy, they were working last year 32-thousand hectares, mainly, corn and they do believe that the implements have an additional value of profits of about a hundred to 150 euros an hectare. And they are quite convinced that these offer a real solution to them."
De L'Escaille says biotechnology can be a partial solution to the exodus of people, particularly promising young scientists from rural Europe.
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