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Market Watch June 13, 2019

Advances in Precision Farming, Breeding Have Europe Rethinking GMOs

By FeedNavigator

Plant breeding innovations need to be treated differently to GMOs in order to leverage their potential to contribute to sustainability goals, said trade group FEDIOL in a vision document for the EU agri sector released today ahead of its AGM in Brussels.

Representing the EU vegetable oil and protein meal industry, the trade group said [digitization], precision farming, and plant breeding innovation are essential to the development of smart agriculture and sustainable intensification of production, writes Jane Byrne for FeedNavigator.com.

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However, FEDIOL reckons the EU’s GMO directive is no longer fit for purpose, adding that it believes that plants obtained with new breeding methods should not be considered GMOs when they could also have been obtained through earlier breeding methods or resulted from spontaneous processes in nature.

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