Increasing use of biotechnology
across the world, biotechnology's reach has increased by 12 per cent in 2002, with the land under transgenic crops amounting to 58.7 million hectares. So states a report of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (isaaa), a non-profit organisation with regional centres across the world.
2002 was the sixth consecutive year when farmers adopted biotechnology at a double-digit pace
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