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

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 ...