"We would be concerned if we went up to 10% and allowed all of that 10% to come from food based crops, then we would say no, that's not what we're recommending," said Prof Nilay Shah from Imperial ...

Last week, the Commission suggested it would not deregulate gene-edited crops. “We have to make sure the technology is safe. Somehow we have to get the balance right,” Claire Bury, the EU official in ...

A ROW over Scotland’s ban on genetically modified crops took a new twist last night after Nicola Sturgeon admitted the move was not “based on scientific considerations”.

This amounts to about 150 tonnes worth, he explains. The problem for the Kent-based farmer is that eastern Europeans, who were picking crops like baby gem lettuce pre-Brexit, have not returned.

Genetically modified (GM) crop technology is not the answer to helping UK farmers produce more food, according to the head of the country’s top crop research facility. Achim Dobermann, chief ...