GMOs made up more than half the world's soya crop by area, a quarter of its corn and over a tenth of its cotton.

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The corn crop in my area is effectively destroyed, this year, and the economic cost will be enormous.

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The FAO's Abdolreza Abbassian argues that increasing links between farming and other parts of the economy are making it more difficult for farmers to calculate in advance the profitability of any one crop, so the area they plant is tending to fluctuate more sharply from year to year.

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Told that his area's crop looked promising, the trooper said, "My dad'll be happy to hear that, " and let the G-man off with a warning.

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According to a recent survey conducted by the marketing research firm, Maritz Research, our current crop of leaders has a lot of work to do in this area.

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Covering the largest area to be impacted since 1956, these conditions are taking a heavy toll on crop yields.

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"If we got three-quarters of the area planted, and the same yield as last year, we could be looking at a crop of only 11m tonnes of wheat when we actually need 14.5m tonnes of wheat for our own domestic use here in the UK, " he said.

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