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In 2013, GM crops were planted in 27 countries; 19 were developing countries and 8 were developed countries. 2013 was the second year in which developing countries grew a majority (54%) of the total GM harvest. 18 million farmers grew GM crops; around 90% were small-holding farmers in developing countries.
Diamond v. Chakrabarty, 447 U.S. 303 (1980), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with whether genetically modified organisms can be patented. [8] The Court held that a living, man-made micro-organism is patentable subject matter as a "manufacture" or "composition of matter" within the meaning of the Patent Act of 1952.
Due to lack of acceptance of GM crops in Europe, in 2012 BASF Plant Science decided to stop its commercialization and research activities on the European potato varieties Amflora and Fortuna. Further, it announced the relocation of the corporate headquarters from Germany to the USA. [7] [8] Cultivance is an herbicide resistant soybean. It ...
North Carolina covers 53,819 square miles (139,391 km 2) and is 503 miles (810 km) long by 150 miles (241 km) wide. The physical characteristics of the state vary from the summits of the Smoky Mountains , an altitude of near seven thousand feet (2,130 m) in the west, sloping eastward to sea level along the coast and beaches of the Atlantic Ocean .
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As of 2008, all developers of genetically modified crops in the US had made use of the voluntary process. [25] Final approval can still be denied by individual counties within each state. In 2004, Mendocino County , California became the first county to impose a ban on the "Propagation, Cultivation, Raising, and Growing of Genetically Modified ...
Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida late last week and hit the southeastern United States and parts of western North Carolina particularly hard. At least 215 people have died and hundreds ...
Soybeans accounted for half of all genetically modified crops planted in 2014. [18] Adoption by farmers has been rapid, between 1996 and 2013, the total surface area of land cultivated with GM crops increased by a factor of 100, from 17,000 square kilometers (4,200,000 acres) to 1,750,000 km 2 (432 million acres). [19]