Special/Wheat/Argentina: Even after approval of commercial planting, exporters and mills reject transgenics

게시됨 2022년 6월 3일

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Argentina has approved the commercial scale planting of genetically modified (GMO) wheat, but producers, exporters, and local mills refuse to use or commercialize the product due to consumer rejection and market fears. The main concern is Brazil's rejection of transgenic wheat. The Cereal Exporters Center and the Argentine Federation of the Milling Industry have committed to selling only conventional wheat to Brazil and will test cargo prior to shipment. The milling industry has no intention of using transgenic cereal domestically, and it may need to mill wheat separately for domestic and foreign markets in the future. The decision to allow GMO wheat surprised the local milling industry, with the next step depending on Brazil's permission to use and import transgenic wheat.

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원본 콘텐츠

By Isadora Duarte São Paulo, 05/30/2022 - Despite the authorization by the Argentine government for the commercial scale planting of genetically modified wheat (GMO) of the HB4 variety, producers, exporters of the cereal and local mills resist the use and commercialization of the product . The main reason for the rejection by the Argentine wheat sector, according to sources heard by Broadcast Agro, is the fear regarding the non-acceptance of the transgenic cereal by consumers. Due to the fact that Argentina is the first in the world to allow the cultivation of transgenic wheat, the sector fears market impacts arising from the large-scale sowing authorization granted on May 12 by the country's Ministry of Agriculture. Brazil, for example, the main market for Argentine cereal, which annually buys about 50% of the wheat exported by the country, does not accept imports of transgenic wheat, but allows the use and internalization of wheat flour from the HB4 variety since November last ...

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