Swiss agribusiness company Syngenta has abandoned its plans to carry out Germany’s first trials of genetically modified wheat after the site was sabotaged last week.
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Syngenta was given approval for the trials by German authorities last week but shortly before the approval was granted activists from environmental pressure group Greenpeace planted organic wheat seed on the test site in the eastern state of Thuringia, reported Reuters.
Peter Hefner, a spokesman for Syngenta in Germany, said the trials would be moved to other countries such as France and the UK.
