Brazil’s new government has confirmed that plantings of genetically modified crops were illegal, but said it would look for legal ways to sell what has already been planted.
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“The government considers that, as a result of a control fault by the previous government, there have been plantings of transgenic soy, which represents an illegality,” President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s spokesman Andre Singer was quoted by Reuters as saying.
Singer, speaking after a government meeting to discuss the issue, said the agriculture sector in Brazil was facing social and economic problems with tens of thousands of farmers depending on this year’s harvest, part of which is transgenic.
He did not reveal whether the GM crops would be sold at home or abroad.
Brazil, which is the world’s number two soybean producer and exporter, is the last major soybean exporter to still ban GM crops, reported Reuters.
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