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Germany only expects to plant a limited amount of genetically modified crops
this year, February 2006 translated by Stephan Nyeki, Checkbiotech.

The German Office for Consumer Protection and Food Security only
registered about 1536 hectares at the end of January. Most of the hundred or
so applications concerned cultivation of the MON810 Bt maize variety.

The agriculture press agency Agra-Europe reported that the Federal Office
licensed three of these pest-resistant strains to Monsanto and Pioneer
Hi-Bred in December 2005.

Farmers are holding back with the cultivation of such crops in view of
liability issues should out-crossing of genetically engineered plants
occurs.

The largest interest in GM maize exists in the new federal states: 876
hectares are being grown in the state of Brandenburg, with Saxony and
Saxony-Anhalt in second and third places with 243 and 232 hectares,
respectively, followed by Mecklenburg-Vorpommern with 139 hectares.

The largest areas in the states of former West Germany, are 21 and 13
hectares in Baden-Württemberg and Bayern. Other states are growing even
less, with the exception of the city states and Saarland.

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