On the show, Oz never challenged him, although agricultural biotechnology has been under review by the F.
The Agricultural Biotechnology Council, the lobby group for GM crop companies in Britain, described the work as "an interesting development".
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Consider the case of Discover magazine, which features a troubling cover story on the anti-agricultural biotechnology movement in its April issue.
Jia Shirong, a professor and member of the government's Safety Committee on Agricultural Biotechnology, is also on the board of a leading biotech company.
But whether it does or not, it looks as though the greens have won and agricultural biotechnology will continue to slip away from Britain.
CropDesign, a Belgian plant genetics company, has secured private financing by appealing to the handful of venture capitalists with enough experience of agricultural biotechnology not to be rattled.
This idea, also championed by former Monsanto Chief Executive Robert Shapiro , held that it made sense to group agricultural biotechnology and drug development together under the same roof.
The number of crop-protection research centres has fallen over the past few years from six to one the Jealott's Hill, Berkshire, research facility of Syngenta, a Swiss-British agricultural biotechnology firm.
The UN's regulatory policies, requirements and standards regularly defy scientific consensus and common sense: UN agencies' virtual ban on DDT for mosquito control and their stultifying regulation of agricultural biotechnology are lamentable examples.
There may be hope on the horizon with the help of technologies that are changing our lives through connected appliances, big data applications, innovative uses of smart phones and great advances in agricultural biotechnology.
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In the agriculture sector alone, Monsanto and its competitors are spending billions of dollars annually on agricultural biotechnology research, pursuing traits that make crops higher yielding and more resistant to various environmental stresses, and to make grains with increased nutritional value.
"The report says only half the people that took part - and remember, 99.9% of the population did not - had some concerns, " said Paul Rylott, of the Agricultural Biotechnology Council (ABC), which represents biotech firms like Monsanto and Bayer CropScience.
The first of these NSF-funded citizens groups tackled regulatory policy toward agricultural biotechnology and recommended that the government tighten regulations for cultivating genetically engineered crops, including a new requirement that the foods from these crops be labeled to identify them for consumers.
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Some biotech entrepreneurs wonder if big firms with interests in both agricultural biotechnology and conventional pesticides could ever be persuasive advocates of the new science that their smaller peers are developing, since it could well undermine sales of their most popular chemicals.
He wants to develop agricultural industries and biotechnology.
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Exelixis and Maxygen, two firms applying their technology to agricultural ends, had successful stockmarket flotations in the past year, largely because they also have human-health research programmes that allow them to be seen more as medical biotechnology firms than as agricultural ones.
The outcome--unscientific, highly politicized and excessive regulation of biotechnology--has prevented critical advances in agricultural and pharmaceutical research and development and has been especially catastrophic for poor nations.
With the money raised Dow has bought in shares (the number of shares outstanding has shrunk by a fifth in the past five years), bought Eli Lilly's 40% stake in an agricultural chemical joint venture with Dow and bought the Minnesota-based biotechnology firm Mycogen.
America is not only the most competitive country in information technology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology, but is also a frontrunner in agricultural innovation.
With money raised by the sales, Stavropoulos and Dow have bought in shares (the number of shares outstanding has shrunk by a fifth in the past five years), bought Eli Lilly's 40% stake in an agricultural chemical joint venture with Dow, and bought the Minnesota-based biotechnology firm Mycogen.
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