March 29, 2000 / PA News / Jackie Storer, Political Staff, PA News
The UK Government is, according to this story, funding ecological studies into genetically modified herbicide tolerant crops to the tune of 4.4 million, Environment Minister Michael Meacher disclosed tonight.
Farm scale evaluations of the crops of forage maize, beet, spring and autumn sown oil seed rape are, according to Meacher in a Commons written reply, being organised by the Government and the industry body SCIMAC, adding, "The Government is funding an independent research consortium to carry out ecological studies. The cost of the ecological studies is currently 4.4 million over the period March 1999 to December 2003.
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