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Mar 5, 2021 | Agriculture, Business, Community

GM crop suspension to end in July

  • Rod Stephen is a former television journalist and has worked as Foreign Editor for the Seven Network, Australian Bureau Chief for TV3 New Zealand, UK correspondent for Seven and ABC radio and as a producer for Reuters TV in London as well as SBS in Sydney and Melbourne before returning to Brisbane to work at 4BC.

The New South Wales government will lift the ban on the use of genetically modified crops by allowing the temporary suspension to lapse this July.

It’s in the hope of increasing agricultural competitiveness and productivity.

Agriculture Minister and Northern Tablelands MP Adam Marshall said by lifting the ban, the Government is opening the door for the State’s primary industries sector to embrace new GM technologies in the field, and potentially reap billions of dollars in benefits across NSW. 

Genetically modified canola, cotton and safflower  were first grown in NSW 2008 and they met all crop management and marketing requirements.

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