The Ministry of Agribusiness has approved the marketing of two varieties of corn and one of soybeans improved by modern biotechnology.
One of the crops of Approved corn incorporates multiple genes for greater insect control lepidoptera, as well as tolerance to the herbicides glyphosate and glufosinate; the other has resistance to the herbicides 2-4D and aryloxysphenoxy.
While the cultivation of Soybeans are characterized by granting tolerance to glyphosate herbicides, glufosinate and isoxaflutole, facilitating the control of resistant weeds using herbicides with different mechanisms of action.
This decision is based on the work of a solid regulatory system for genetically modified organisms (GMOs), whose implementing authority is the Ministry of Food and Bioeconomy.
The National Advisory Commission on Agricultural Biotechnology (CONABIA), the Reference Centre for Biosecurity of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), was involved in the evaluation of the products. Likewise, the safety and suitability for food was evaluated by the National Service for Agri-Food Health and Quality (Senasa), while the National Seed Institute (INASE) was in charge of regulatory controls during the experimental release stages in the field.
In this regard, Minister Luis Miguel Etchevehere said: "These first three authorizations at the beginning of 2018 are the result of the streamlining policy that we promote as a management axis. In this case applied to the procedures to incorporate Innovations for the producer"Our goals are to increase sustainability, productivity and agro-industrial exports, for which we must take advantage of our country's leadership in the development, regulation and safe and intelligent use of agro-industrial biotechnology."
These crops, developed by companies Syngenta, Dow y Bayer, respectively, offer the producer a new set of tools to facilitate the control of insects and weeds, in addition to mitigating the appearance of resistant pests thanks to the combination of different mechanisms of action.
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