date:Jan 05, 2013
armers in 29 countries producing GM products on 160 million hectares of land - 11 per cent of the world's arable land.
However, Mr Paterson's stance has been challenge by anti GM campaigners.
Friends of the Earth's senior food and farming campaigner Clare Oxborrow said: GM crops are not the solution to the food challenges we face. They are largely being developed to benefit multinational biotech firms that are gaining control of the seed industry, not to feed poor people in developing countrie