Le maïs OGM, price to pay if he returns to France (study)
PARIS, 29 oct 2008 (AFP) – If France were to again allow the cultivation of genetically modified maize, suspendue en février, dies without GMOs would pay a high price and risk of disappearing, according to a university study requested by Greenpeace.
Economists Research Center and management study (CREG) University of Pau, “cultures with strict specifications on GMOs (with a presence threshold tolerated below 0,1%) are set to disappear in areas of GM maize and those with adventitious presence threshold (agreed to 0,9%) could survive, with new constraints”.
The CREG stresses “difficult to get a figure of synthesis” estimated additional costs on the various, and evokes a relatively wide range 5 to 37 per tonne of non-GM corn.
But he says, as has already been observed for other crops in other countries, “the corn market should be divided into two”, Fillière between GMO and non-GMO which cost more.
As for the production of bio maize, which excludes any presence of GMOs, “GM maize cultivation in an area (the) makes it impossible” and the “economic risk production decommissioning is also extremely strong”, for example in the case of controlled or certified original productions.
The study cites the case of the chicken dies “Label Rouge”, providing food without GMOs in their poultry: she believes that if GM maize is cultivated in France again, the additional cost incurred for producers using non-GMO corn could reach 4 to 15 centimes per kilo of chicken.
The Greenpeace organization that funded this study calls Thursday to maintain the suspension of the cultivation of maize MON810, the only GMOs which was cultivated in France until this suspension.
“This study proves for the first time some sectors are condemned while others will have to take a significant additional cost: the regime “paying polluted” is implemented to the profits of industrial agrochemicals”, Note Arnaud Apoteker, Specialist GMO Greenpeace.
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