Food & agriculture · 1996

Bt and herbicide-tolerant crops

Crops carrying a bacterial insecticide gene and herbicide tolerance reached large-scale planting.

Bt cotton and corn and Roundup Ready soybeans were commercialised in 1996. By the 2020s GM crops covered roughly 190 million hectares, and Bt cotton cut insecticide spraying sharply in India and China.

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