"Brazil is home to one of the world's largest areas of genetically-modified seed cultivations with 15 million hectares in 2007. The greatest increase of these crops occurred under the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, despite growing opposition from Brazilian farmers and environmentalists.
Brazil is expected to surpass its soy-producing neighbor, Argentina in area of cultivated transgenic seeds, to become the world's second largest producer this year, according to the Itnernational Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA), a non-profit organization.
The United States ranks first for genetically-modified seed cultivation with 57.7 million hectares in 2007, half the world's transgenic farmland."
ORIGINAL SOURCE: Environmental News Network
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