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Health
Support for Biotech Crops
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Jun 17, 2004, 11:07

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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