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Farmers See New Hope in Genetically - Modified Crops
According to the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), they regard these crops as an innovation, and their real interest is in seeing how these crops work in practice and whether they can contribute to the profitability of their farms.
The research suggests that these farmers do not think that GM raises any issues of principle, or that it is a matter of right or wrong.
A group at the Open University, led by Professor Andy Lane, took the first systematic look at what large-scale, commodity farmers not those mainly involved in organic growing - think about genetically modified crops.
Lane and his colleagues found that both farmers who have been involved in GM crop trials and those who have not, regard GM as a simple extension of previous plant breeding techniques, such as those which have produced todays established crop types.
New technology such as GM is attractive to farmers. They want to produce high-quality food profitably and they want to farm in an environmentally sensitive way. GM may allow them to reconcile this conundrum by doing both of these things at once, Professor Lane said.
A particular advantage of GM is its potential to allow farmers to grow crops with high yields while using less herbicide.
This involves new management practices.
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