GM seeds, widely used in the US, Canada, Brazil and India, have been artificially altered to enhance some of their characteristics. The global acreage of GM crops under cultivation increased from 1.7 million hectares in 1996 to 191.7 million ha in 2019. Africa, where most countries still don’t allow GM crops, played little part in that increase.
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