Seandainya GMO (genetically modified organisms) terbukti aman, dunia akan kecukupan pangan. Dan tanah yang semula ladang, dapat ditanami pohon banyak, sehingga erosi top soil dapat dihambat. Daun pohon akan makan CO2 dalam proses photosynthesis dan menghasilkan O2 yang dihirup oleh manusia. Lebih jauh, berkurangnya CO2 diudara akan mengurangi efek rumah kaca yang menyulut global warming.
Saya percaya pada potensi manusia, yang salah satunya adalah intelegensia, dan itu dipunyai oleh manusia Indonesia termasuk Anda-anda. Selamat menunaikan ibadah Ramadhan besok atau lusa. Slam, RM GM seeds make their way into 25% of farmland NIDHI NATH SRINIVAS TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 09, 2004 01:32:38 AM ] NEW DELHI: It�s been a creeping acquisition. Genetically modified seeds are slowly but surely taking over larger chunks of farm land across the globe. For the first time, one out of every four hectares in the world growing food, feed and fibre crops is now using transgenic seeds. To put that milestone in perspective, around 750 million acres, or one-third the total land area of China, is now under GM crops. In India itself, the area under Bt cotton has doubled within a year. By next year, the world is expected to grow GM oilseeds, cotton and maize on a whopping 100 million hectares. For GM seed companies, that would mean a cool $5 billion or more in sales. And with an average annual growth rate of 10%, GM usage is set to only increase further as large food and feed processing companies find they are meeting less resistance from consumers and law-makers world-wide. In 2003, 55% of the 76 million hectares of soyabean planted globally were transgenic, up from 51% in 2002. Twenty-one percent of the 34 million hectares of cotton were GM, up from 20% last year. The area planted to transgenic canola in 2003 was 16%, up from 12% in 2002. Finally, of the 140 million hectares of maize grown globally, 11% was GM in 2003 equivalent to 15.5 million hectares, up substantially from 9% or 12.4 million hectares in 2002. If the global areas (conventional and transgenic) of these four principal GM crops are aggregated, the total area is 272 million hectares of which 25%, up from 22% in 2002, was transgenic in 2003. Thus, for the first time one quarter of the aggregate area of the four crops, totalling over one quarter billion hectares is GM. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> *************************************************************************** Berdikusi dg Santun & Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality & Shared Destiny. www.ppi-india.uni.cc *************************************************************************** __________________________________________________________________________ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Lihat arsip sebelumnya, www.ppi-india.da.ru; 4. Posting: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
