India benefits of non-GMO demand Japan and European Union

India’s oil meals exports to Japan in FY11 jumped more than two-fold to 1.259 million tonnes as the latter prefers non-genetically modified (GM) crop produced by India, according to an industry body. India had shipped 475,000 tonnes of oil meal (used as cattle and poultry feed) in FY10 fiscal, according to the Mumbai-based Solvent Extractors Association (SEA).

He noted that India is basically a non-GM crop producer when it comes to oil seeds, while other major producing nations like Argentina, the US and Brazil largely produce GM crops. Among the shipment of oil meals to Japan, the soy meal export have increased the most. Soy meal shipments in FY11 have increased by 169 percent to 1.241 million tonnes compared to 461,000 tonnes in the year-ago period. Reads more ...

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