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Pakistan: Agricultural Biotechnology Annual

The Government of Pakistan has put on hold genetically engineered (GE) trials on all crops except cotton since March 2019.
On January 22, 2021, the Polish Chamber of Milk (PCM), Poland’s largest dairy industry organization, organized an online conference about the European Union’s (EU) Farm to Fork (F2F) Strategy...
China’s first National Plan to Adapt to Climate Change was issued in 2007 and was followed by a series of policy and strategy documents to manage the challenges caused by climate change...
On February 8, 2021, the Government of India’s Food Safety and Standards Authority (FSSAI) clarified that the implementation of the requirement for a Genetically Modified-Free Certificate...
On February 4, 2021, Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF) opened a public comment period for a proposed amendment to the handling of crossbred progeny...
In December 2020, the Government of Nigeria through the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) authorized guidelines on gene editing.
The Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) has released Regulation No. 50/2020, which for the first time provides post-monitoring guidelines for the commercial cultivation of GE crops.
In December 2020, the European Commission released the latest Eurobarometer on EU citizens expectations related to food.
On December 22, 2016, Japan’s Cabinet approved a Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) proposal to permit soybean meal, coconut oil meal, rapeseed meal, cottonseed oil meal...
Attaché Report (GAIN)

Burma: Agricultural Biotechnology Annual

Myanmar does not have a biosafety framework to track genetically engineered food or animal products.
This report provides an unofficial translation of Decision 5463/QD-BNN-PC, dated December 28, 2016 of Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).
Attaché Report (GAIN)

Pakistan: Agricultural Biotechnology Annual

Pakistan is making progress towards approving and implementing the regulations that will modernize its seed and biotechnology regulatory systems.