Developing countries continued to plant more biotech crops in 2019, according to the ISAAA report on theĀ Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops: 2019. The report is now available on theĀ ISAAA website.
[Up to] 2011, the global area of biotech crops was evenly distributed. In 2012, developing countries [began outperforming] the developed countries …. In 2019, 56% of the global area of biotech crops [was] planted in developing countries. Of the 29 countries that [grew] GM crops in 2019, 24 were developing and 5 were developed countries.Follow the latest news and policy debates on agricultural biotech and biomedicine? Subscribe to our newsletter.
Brazil,Ā Argentina, andĀ IndiaĀ led the developing countries in terms of biotech crop planting area in 2019.