VIETNAM’S GM REGULATIONS COULD BOOST LOCAL COTTON PRODUCTION
March 15th, 2014
Vietnam’s languishing cotton development master plan could be given a new lease of life if a new government bio-safety certificate programme takes off this year as planned, opening the way for farmers to grow genetically-modified (GM) high yield pest resistant cotton.The first certificates could be released by mid-2014, according to analysts, with the first genetically-modified crops planted in 2015. This follows a circular issued last year by the Vietnam ministry of natural resources and environment (MONRE) on the procedure for granting and revoking ...
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