Divisions emerge as UK minister calls for approval of GM crops

Opinion remains divided between EU agriculture ministers following UK farm minister Owen Paterson’s call for EU approval of genetically modified (GM) crops and other agricultural innovations.

Mr Paterson told delegates at this week’s Oxford Farming Conference Europe risked becoming the “museum of world farming” as innovative companies make decisions to invest and develop technologies in other markets.

“There are other tools in the toolbox and GM is not a panacea,” Mr Paterson told delegates.