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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><em>Farmland struck by infestations of bugs following widespread adoption of Bt cotton made by biotech giant Monsanto. </em></font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Scientists are calling for the long-term risks of GM crops to be reassessed after field studies revealed an explosion in pest numbers around farms growing modified strains of cotton.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The unexpected surge of infestations “highlights a critical need” for better ways of predicting the impact of GM crops and spotting potentially damaging knock-on effects arising from their cultivation, researchers said.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Millions of hectares of farmland in northern China have been struck by infestations of bugs following the widespread adoption of Bt cotton, an engineered variety made by the US biotech giant, Monsanto.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Outbreaks of mirid bugs, which can devastate around 200 varieties of fruit, vegetable and corn crops, have risen dramatically in the past decade, as cotton farmers have shifted from traditional cotton crops to GM varieties, scientists said.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Traditional cotton farmers have to spray their crops with insecticides to combat destructive bollworm pests, but Bt cotton produces its own insecticide, meaning farmers can save money by spraying it less. But a 10-year study across six major cotton-growing regions of China found that by spraying their crops less, farmers allowed mirid bugs to thrive and infest their own and neighbouring farms.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The infestations are potentially catastrophic for more than 10 million small-scale farmers who cultivate 26m hectares of vulnerable crops in the region studied. The findings mark the first confirmed report of mass infestations arising as an unintended consequence of farmers using less pesticide — a feature of Bt cotton that was supposed to save money and lessen the crops' environmental impact. The research, led by Kongming Wu at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing, is published in the US journal, Science.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">“Our work highlights a critical need to do ecological assessments and monitoring at the landscape—level to better understand the impacts of GM crop adoption,” Dr Wu told the Guardian.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Environmental campaigners seized on the study as further evidence that GM crops are not the environmental saviour that manufacturers have led farmers to believe. “This is a massive issue in terms of the environment, but also in terms of costs for the farmer. The plan with GM crops was to reduce costs and environmental impact, but neither of these things seem to be happening, because over time, nature takes its course, and that was bound to happen,” said Kirtana Chandrasekaran, a food campaigner at Friends of the Earth.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Dr Wu's team monitored insecticide use from 1992 to 2008 at 38 farms throughout six northern Chinese provinces. They also kept records of mirid bug populations at the farms between 1997 and 2008.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Before switching to GM cotton, farmers used more broad—spectrum insecticides to kill bollworms and other pests. But as more farmers began growing Bt cotton, their use of sprays declined, leading to a steady rise in pests, including mirid bugs.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">“The proteins in Bt cotton control major pests, replacing most of the chemical insecticide used for their control in traditional cotton. Removal of these broad spectrum insecticides means secondary pests, such as mirids, will not be controlled by the insecticides and may need specific measures to control them in some seasons,” said Mark Buckingham at Monsanto U.K.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">While many countries around the world have embraced GM crops, they have never taken root in Britain, where multinational companies have faced protests and vandalism to crop trials in recent years.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Britain's large-scale field trials of herbicide-tolerant GM crops in 2003 found changes in herbicide use had an impact on weeds and insects that might also affect country wildlife. — <em>© Guardian Newspapers Limited, 2010</em></font>
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Pests explosion leads to call for GM review by Ian Sample
Farmland struck by infestations of bugs following widespread adoption of Bt cotton made by biotech giant Monsanto.
Scientists are calling for the long-term risks of GM crops to be reassessed after field studies revealed an explosion in pest numbers around farms growing modified strains of cotton.
The unexpected surge of infestations “highlights a critical need” for better ways of predicting the impact of GM crops and spotting potentially damaging knock-on effects arising from their cultivation, researchers said.
Millions of hectares of farmland in northern China have been struck by infestations of bugs following the widespread adoption of Bt cotton, an engineered variety made by the US biotech giant, Monsanto.
Outbreaks of mirid bugs, which can devastate around 200 varieties of fruit, vegetable and corn crops, have risen dramatically in the past decade, as cotton farmers have shifted from traditional cotton crops to GM varieties, scientists said.
Traditional cotton farmers have to spray their crops with insecticides to combat destructive bollworm pests, but Bt cotton produces its own insecticide, meaning farmers can save money by spraying it less. But a 10-year study across six major cotton-growing regions of China found that by spraying their crops less, farmers allowed mirid bugs to thrive and infest their own and neighbouring farms.
The infestations are potentially catastrophic for more than 10 million small-scale farmers who cultivate 26m hectares of vulnerable crops in the region studied. The findings mark the first confirmed report of mass infestations arising as an unintended consequence of farmers using less pesticide — a feature of Bt cotton that was supposed to save money and lessen the crops' environmental impact. The research, led by Kongming Wu at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing, is published in the US journal, Science.
“Our work highlights a critical need to do ecological assessments and monitoring at the landscape—level to better understand the impacts of GM crop adoption,” Dr Wu told the Guardian.
Environmental campaigners seized on the study as further evidence that GM crops are not the environmental saviour that manufacturers have led farmers to believe. “This is a massive issue in terms of the environment, but also in terms of costs for the farmer. The plan with GM crops was to reduce costs and environmental impact, but neither of these things seem to be happening, because over time, nature takes its course, and that was bound to happen,” said Kirtana Chandrasekaran, a food campaigner at Friends of the Earth.
Dr Wu's team monitored insecticide use from 1992 to 2008 at 38 farms throughout six northern Chinese provinces. They also kept records of mirid bug populations at the farms between 1997 and 2008.
Before switching to GM cotton, farmers used more broad—spectrum insecticides to kill bollworms and other pests. But as more farmers began growing Bt cotton, their use of sprays declined, leading to a steady rise in pests, including mirid bugs.
“The proteins in Bt cotton control major pests, replacing most of the chemical insecticide used for their control in traditional cotton. Removal of these broad spectrum insecticides means secondary pests, such as mirids, will not be controlled by the insecticides and may need specific measures to control them in some seasons,” said Mark Buckingham at Monsanto U.K.
While many countries around the world have embraced GM crops, they have never taken root in Britain, where multinational companies have faced protests and vandalism to crop trials in recent years.
Britain's large-scale field trials of herbicide-tolerant GM crops in 2003 found changes in herbicide use had an impact on weeds and insects that might also affect country wildlife. — © Guardian Newspapers Limited, 2010
