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soybeanIn 2015, biotech soybean accounted for 51% of all the biotech crop hectarage in the world.

The global hectarage of herbicide tolerant and stacked trait soybean in 2015 was 92.1 million hectares, up by ~1.4 million hectares, or 2% from 2014 at 90.7 million hectares.

Of the 111 million hectares of soybean planted globally

in 2015, 83% or 92.1 million hectares were biotech. The increase resulted from higher adoption in Brazil, Argentina, USA, Bolivia, and Mexico.

Eleven countries reported growing herbicide tolerant RR®soybean in 2015. The top three countries, growing by far the largest hectarage of herbicide tolerant and HT/Bt soybean, were: USA (32.4 million hectares), Brazil (30.3 million hectares), and Argentina (21.1 million hectares).

The other eight countries growing RR®soybean in decreasing order of hectarage are: Paraguay, Canada, Uruguay, Bolivia, South Africa, Mexico, Chile, and Costa Rica.

Benefits from Biotech soyBean

The increase in income benefits for farmers growing biotech soybean during the 19-year period 1996 to 2014 was US$47.8 billion, and US$6 billion for 2014 alone.



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MaizeBiotech maize was planted in 53.6 million hectares in 2015, a 3% decrease from the 2014 hectarage of 55.2 million hectares. The decrease is due to reduction in planting in the U.S., and in several other countries also decreasing maize plantings in favor of soybean.

of the global hectarage of 185 million hectares of maize grown in 2015, 29% (53.6 million hectares) were biotech maize.

There were 17 countries which grew biotech maize in 2015, the following five countries grew more than 1 million hectares of biotech maize in 2015 in decreasing order of hectarage: USA (33.1 million hectares), Brazil (13.1 million), Argentina (2.9 million), South Africa (1.8 million), and canada (1.4 million hectares).

Five EU countries continued to plant 116,870 hectares of biotech Bt maize in the EU in 2015, equivalent to an 18% decrease over 2014.

The five EU countries, in decreasing order of hectarage

were Spain, Portugal, czechia, Slovakia, and Romania.

The other countries growing biotech maize are: Paraguay, Uruguay, Philippines, colombia, Honduras, chile, and Vietnam.

Benefits from Biotech maize

The increase in income benefits for farmers growing biotech

maize during the 19-year period 1996 to 2014 was US$50.6 billion and US$7 billion for 2014 alone.

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CottonThe area planted to biotech in 2015 was 24 million hectares, down from the 25.1 million hectares grown in 2014.

Based on a global hectarage of 32 million hectares, 75% or 24 million hectares were biotech cotton, and grown in 15 countries of the 28 biotech crop countries worldwide.

Four of the 15 countries that grew biotech cotton in 2015 planted more than 1 million hectares. They are, in descending order of hectarage: India (11.6 million hectares), china (3.6 million hectares), USA (3.4 million hectares), and Pakistan (2.9 million hectares).

Another 11 countries grew biotech cotton in 2015, including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, colombia, costa Rica, Mexico, Myanmar, Paraguay, South Africa, and Sudan.

India planted the largest area to biotech cotton at 11.6 million hectares due to significant gains in production, economic,

environmental, health, and social benefits.

Burkina Faso which grew 454,124 hectares in 2014, decreased its planting to 350,000 hectares in 2015.

Australia planted 214,000 hectares of biotech cotton in 2015 after a peak hectarage of almost 600,000 hectares in 2011.

Benefits from Biotech cotton

The increase in income benefits for farmers growing biotech cotton during the 19-year period 1996 to 2014 was US$46.5 billion, and US$4.1 billion for 2014 alone.

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CanolaThe global area of biotech canola is estimated to have dereased by a significant 549,000 hectares, or 6% from 9 million in 2014 to 8.5 million hectares in 2015.

of the global hectarage of 36 million hectares of canola, 24%, or 8.5 million hectares were biotech canola.

canada, the USA, Australia and chile grew biotech canola

but the global hectarage and prevalence could increase significantly in the near term in response to the likely increased use of canola for vegetable oil and biodiesel.

Most of the gain in biotech canola was contributed by Australia with a 102,000 hectares increase, while decreases were reported in canada and the USA due to reduced planting of canola in 2015.

Benefits from Biotech canola

The increase in income benefits for farmers growing biotech canola during the 19-year period 1996 to 2014 was US$4.9 billion, and US$0.6 billion for 2014 alone.

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alfalfaBiotech RR®alfalfa was planted in the USA at 1 million hectares, or 13% of the national hectarage of alfalfa of 7.4 million hectares in 2015.

Herbicide tolerant RR®alfalfa was first approved for commercial planting in the USA in 2005. The first pre-commercial plantings (20,000 hectares) were sown in 2005, followed by larger commercial plantings of 60,000 in 2006, approximately 5% of the 1.3 million hectares of alfalfa in 2006.

A court injunction in 2007 suspended further plantings of RR®alfalfa until a new dossier of

information was submitted to the regulators for consideration.

Before the injunction came into force, 22,000 hectares of RR®alfalfa were planted, bringing the total area to 102,000 hectares in 2007. After several court hearings, RR®alfalfa was cleared for planting in early 2011, and hectarage of RR®alfalfa in the USA in 2011 was up to ~200,000 hectares.

The US Department of Agriculture does not publish adoption rates for biotech alfalfa, but observers opine that it could reach up to 50% in the near term as the stacked HT/low lignin alfalfa is more attractive to growers.

In 2014, biotech low-lignin alfalfa was approved for cultivation in the USA. The new product has less lignin, higher digestibility, and is claimed to also offer a 15% to 20% yield increase.

other biotech crops

The following biotech crops were also planted in the USA in 2015: biotech sweet corn (1,000 hectares); biotech virus resistant squash (1,000 hectares) PRSV

resistant papaya (1,000 hectares), Innate™ Generation 1 biotech potato (160 hectares, first planted in 2015), and SU canola™ (4,000 hectares, first planted in 2015.)

In china 6,985 hectares of biotech papaya and 543 hectares of biotech Bt poplar were grown in 2015.

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