2007 – Strong growth across the Globe

• In North America, US grows by 3.1 mill has, - 37% of 57.7m stacked,10m ha for biofuel, 40% growth in maize

• In Asia, India increases Bt cotton by 63% to 6.2 million ha. & China by 9% to 3.8 million ha. - Philippine grows

• In South America, Brazil - biotech soybean & cotton grows by 30% to 15.0 mill.has. –Argentina #2 + Chile

• South Africa increases biotech area by 30% to 1.8 mill. ha, with most of increase in white Bt maize for food

• Poland is 8th EU country to plant Bt maize. EU has >100,000 hectares for 1st time – 77% growth in 2007

Source: Clive James 2008

The Future – The 2nd Next Decade, 2006 - 2015

• Continued growth in US, Canada and Australia through stacking and expanded range of crops featuring agronomic, quality & other traits plus the very important trait of drought tolerance in about 3 years . Biotech crop adoption facilitated by high commodity prices

• 1st decade 1996-2005, was the decade of the Americas, 2nd decade will likely feature strong growth in Asia led by India, China & new countries like Vietnam

• Brazil has enormous potential to be the lead country in Lat America

• Africa - # of biotech countries to increase modestly , led by Egypt in N. Africa, Burkina Faso in W Africa and Kenya in E. Africa

• Slow to modest growth in the EU, & potential in Eastern Europe

• Use of biotech crops for biofuel- ethanol & biodiesel- led by US and Brazil plus many other countries will be a major new development.

Compiled by Clive James, 2008

Bt cotton – A remarkable India story

• World's largest cotton area; cotton is key cash crop grown by 5.5 million farmers, impacting 60 million lives in 9 states

• Cotton accounts for 65% of the fiber used in India.

• Cotton grows in different climatic conditions-65% in dry-land and 35% on irrigated land

• 131 location specific Bt cotton hybrids with 4 different events.

• It is also now the Second Largest exporter of raw cotton with an export of 6.5 million bales in 2007-08.

• India (5.334 million tons) overtook the US (4.144 million tons) to become the second largest cotton producer in the World in 2007-08.

Developing countries continue to record bigger gains in biotech area than industrial countries in 2007

• From 1996 to 2007, the percentage of global area of biotech crops in developing countries increased every single year- reached 43% in 2007, up from 40% in 2006

• Biotech area in developing countries grew by 8.5 million hectares, or 21% in 2007, compared with 3.8 million hectares or 6 % in industrial countries

• The five lead biotech crop developing countries - India, China, Argentina, Brazil and South Africa, with a combined population of 2.6 billion (40% of global) grew 45.9 million hectares of biotech crops in 2006, equivalent to 40% of global total

Source: Clive James 2008

2007 Highlights-Area continues to soar

• 114.3 million hectares versus 102 mill has. in 2006

• 12.3 million ha. increase - 12% - 2nd highest in 5 years

• 114.3 m. has in 23 countries, up from 102 m has in 22 countries in 2006 – 10% area used for biofuel in 2007.

• 690 million hectares planted globally since 1996

• 12 mill. biotech farmers, up from 10.3 million in 2006 - 90% or 11million are resource-poor farmers – 1st time to exceed 10 million small farmers in dev. countries

• Of 6.5 billion global population 55%, 3.6 billion, live in the 23 biotech countries in 2007

Source: Clive James 2008

Biotech Crops Development of new events/crops continues in 2007

• India approves four biotech cotton events; MON531 and MON15985 of Mahyco/Monsanto, Event-1 of JK seeds and GFM Event developed by Nath Seeds in 2007

• SIX NEW BIOTECH COTTON EVENTS are at different stages of regulatory approval in India developed by the Central Institute for Cotton Research (CICR), Mahyco/Monsanto, JK Seeds, Dow AgroSciences, Deltapine/Monsanto and by Metahelix.

• Approval of LARGE SCALE FIELD TRIALS for Bt Brinjal (Eggplant) developed by Mahyco in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Vegetable Research (IIVR) of ICAR.

• Approval of Multi Location Research Trials (MLRT) for RICE, MUSTARD, BRINJAL, OKRA, GROUNDNUT, TOMATO AND POTATO

Supreme Court lifts restrictions

• The Supreme Court of India lifts restrictions on all field trials and commercialization of biotech crops on 13 Feb 2008

• An enabling policy spurs growth of biotech crops

• More than 12 biotech crops in development

• l Rice- a major staple, insect resistant being field tested and other traits are at fast track development.

• Brinjal, an important vegetable, resistant to fruit and shoot borer in large scale field trials.