OPPONENTS of genetically modified crops appear to be losing the battle against biotechnology.
Klaus Schumacher, chairman of the market and agricultural policy section of COCERAL, the trade association representing the European grain industry, said there were now 30 types of GM crops in the world but that was expected to increase to 120 by 2015.
"GM will have a key role to play in food security and sufficient supply of food in the future,'' Dr Schumacher told the Australian Grain Industry Conference in Melbourne this week.
"We will not stop this development; it will continue.''
