Changing consumer attitudes with late-blight-resistant GM potatoes
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13.02.23
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A new study finds that consumers who have seen genetically modified (GM) potatoes growing in a field and heard about their advantages for farmers and the environment adopt a more favorable view of GM crops in general.
Pests and diseases have been a scourge to agriculture since agriculture began, and they still destroy about 20 percent of crops planted globally, even though farmers spray 2.7 million tons of insecticides and fungicides on fields globally each year.
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