Venezuela to Prohibit Transgenic Crops

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Venezuela to Prohibit Transgenic Crops

 

President Chavez Announces Ban of Genetically Engineered Crops in Venezuela

 

BioX - China, July 8, 2006

 

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias has announced that the cultivation of

genetically modified crops will be prohibited on Venezuelan soil, possibly

establishing the most sweeping restrictions on transgenic crops in the Western

Hemisphere. Though full details of the administration’s policy on genetically

modified organisms (GMOs) are still forthcoming, the statement by President

Chavez will lead most immediately to the cancellation of a contract that

Venezuela had negotiated with the U.S.-based Monsanto Corporation.

 

Before a recent international gathering of supporters in Caracas, President

Chavez admonished genetically engineered crops as contrary to interests and

needs of the nation’s farmers and farmworkers. He then zeroed in on Monsanto’s

plans to plant up to 500,000 acres of transgenic soybeans in Venezuela.

 

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