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The Cost of Australia’s GM Canola Moratorium
Tuesday, September 20, 2016 16:47
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Over at SAIFOOD,
…Australia approved GM canola in 2003. However, by 2004 a moratorium was implemented across Australia against growing GM canola. It wasn’t until 2008 when the central canola producing states, New South Wales and Victoria, lifted the moratorium, followed by Western Australia in 2010.
Recently one of my graduate students, Scott Biden, examined the economic and environmental costs of the Australian moratoriums. This study estimates what the adoption level for GM canola could have been after one decade of production, 2004-2014, had the moratorium not been implemented. The adoption delay of GM canola production has cumulatively resulted in:
- * the application of an additional 6.5 million kg of chemicals;
- 7 million additional field passes were made, requiring 8.7 million litres of diesel;
- * 24 million kg of greenhouse gases were released;
- the environmental impact of the additional chemicals applied was 14% higher; and
- * Australian farmers lost the opportunity to increase their farm revenues by $485 million
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Source: http://gmopundit.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-cost-of-australias-gm-canola.html
