CONFAGRICOLTURA PRESIDENT, FEDERICO VECCHIONI, BELIEVES “THE NEW GOVERNMENT SHOULD RE-INITIATE GMO EXPERIMENTS”

“While the areas destined for genetically modified crops continue to increase all over the globe, in our country we continue with a moratorium on cultivation, to which has been added a block on all experiments, the fruit of an internal conflict within the old government. We hope that the new government will finally be able to resolve the problem in a pragmatic way, keeping in mind the demands of an evolving internal and international market, and giving incentive for research”. This was the affirmation made by the president of Confagricoltura, Federico Vecchioni, at a conference held recently in the Republic of San Marino.

“We want” – continued Vecchioni – “the consumer to be informed, know what is being consumed and have the freedom to choose; just as the European norms for labeling prescribe. But, at the same time, we desire that science is not restrained, that it can continue experimenting, and create innovation for scientific clarifications”.

President Vecchioni also noted that France’s current parliamentary process for the approval of a law for the coexistence of conventional and genetically modified crops, “could be an important precedence for Europe that could be reached after a long internal reflection and which would resolve the stalled situation created by the single ban authorized in Europe, thus overcoming the doubts of those who do not believe in the possibility of a coexistence between these types of cultivation”.