Brazil's Senate votes to allow GMO-growing Author: Bob Meyer
Publication: NFBS
Date: Thursday, December 23, 2004 Brazil’s Senate has approved a decree to allow the planting of biotech seed and sale of genetically modified crops in the current crop year. Brazil deals with GMOs on an annual basis, permanent legislation is hung up in the Brazilian Congress. Brazil remains the only major ag exporting country in the world without permanent legislation regulating biotechnology.
While the legislation is generally good news for seed companies, there are a few provisions they may not like. One provision says farmers can only plant biotech seeds that have been saved from previous plantings on their own farm. The rule, in effect, prevents companies from collecting tech fees and actually rewards growers who planted black-market GMOs in previous years. Biotech soybeans have been grown illegally in southern Brazil for years.
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