The Ministry of Agriculture in the near future will develop legislation in the Russian Federation regulating the production and sale of genetically modified products, said Agriculture Minister Nikolai Fyodorov.
“We have a working group, which is due in the near future to work out some bills (on the regulation of the production of genetically modified products in the Russian Federation)”, – he told reporters on Sunday.
Работа над этим, According to the minister, conducted in several directions - crops and livestock.
Сегодня, the minister said, This problem is constantly being studied, “almost on a daily basis”. However, he said, yet in our market there is no official authorization for the cultivation of agricultural products on the basis of gennoinzhenernomodifitsirovannyh organisms.
В тоже время, the minister said, our market genetically modified foods come from other countries: corn, rice, soy, therefore this area need to be resolved.
По словам Федорова, the views of scientists from different. “some argue, without it there is no future, other – that, we destroy Russia. I believe, can, I am mistaken ... that agricultural resources – earth, water, arable land – allow the elimination of genetically modified organisms”, – said Fedorov.
Ранее экофермеры из объединения “Ekoklaster” sent a letter to the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, which they called on the Russian authorities to speed up the development and adoption of the project on the production of ecologically clean agricultural products law. In their opinion, This document is especially important in connection with the entry of Russia into the World Trade Organization. Ekofermery counting on, to have been recognized in the Russian Federation “relevance and prospects of development of organic farming”.
A source: Soyuzrossahar
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