With GMO soybean market booming, is there a future for conventional varieties?
Story Date: 10/31/2018

 

Source: GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT, 10/26/18


During the last 16 years, GMO soy production has reached 80 million hectares. It is almost 80 percent of total acreage worldwide as of 2014: 100 percent in Argentina, 94 percent in the United States; and 93 percent in Brazil. These developments make it extremely difficult to find GMO-free soybeans and soy additives, particularly in the three largest soy producing countries, which dominate the global export market.

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