With the recent sharp increase in edible oil prices, all sectors in China have begun to reflect on the loss of pricing power for domestic oil and fat varieties. The government recently introduced a subsidy measure for peanuts, which aims to increase the self-sufficiency rate of Chinese edible oil and reduce its dependence on international soybeans (3908, -43.00, -1.09%).
"As one of the world's few remaining non-GM soybean production regions, China is likely to release 'genetically modified soybeans'." This was learned by reporters yesterday from the "Agricultural Biotechnology for Food Security" seminar held in Guangzhou. of.
Since China's accession to the WTO in 2001, due to the impact of genetically modified soybeans in the United States and South America, the soybean cultivation area in China has shrunk year by year, and it has slowly lost its right to pricing soybeans.
“Now the soybean industry has a very strong sense of urgency. Domestic soybean production, processing and marketing have been controlled by foreign companies,†said Huang Dazhao, deputy chairman of the National Agriculture Genetically Modified Organism Safety Committee. “Now we are also facing whether to plant Problems with genetically modified soybeans."
As there has been controversy over the safety of genetically modified foods in the world, China has not yet made major moves. Soybean cultivation is even more so. However, Huang Dazhao said, "After so many years of development, there has been no evidence at home and abroad that there is a safety issue in the genetically modified crops that have been approved for cultivation or consumption."
"In the market economy, it is impossible to keep it alone!" Huang Dazhao believes that the only current practice in China is to accelerate research and industrial development of genetically modified technology, accelerate development, and actively participate in international competition. Only in this way can we seize the commanding heights in the field of food security and biotechnology in a few years before we can occupy a place.
According to him, China's current research on the transgenic technology of major crop varieties has been approved, and soybean is also one of the directions.