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Agricultural applications of the commercialization of gene technology have increased rapidly in the 1990s (Riley and Hoffman, 1999). Adoption of genetically modified (GM) crops has been rapid in the United States and large areas are sown to GM crops in Brazil, China and Argentina. For example, in the United States by 1998 approximately 38 percent of the soybean acreage and more than 40 percent of the cotton area was planted to GM varieties (Carpenter and Gianessi, 1999; USDA/ERS, 1999). In Canada, by 1998, GM varieties of canola accounted for 44 per cent of the area planted to canola (Fulton and Keyowski, 1999).
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Kingwell, R. (2003). Incentive Design for Introducing Genetically Modified Crops. In: Babcock, B.A., Fraser, R.W., Lekakis, J.N. (eds) Risk Management and the Environment: Agriculture in Perspective. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2915-4_6
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