Europe’s policy on GM crops discriminates against the burgeoning arable sector in its new eastern member states, Romania's largest farmer has claimed. Farming company Agricost grows crops on 57,000ha of land in the south east of Romania, receiving around €10million (£8.78m) in EU subsidies each year. But the company’s President Lucian Buzdugan has hit out at the EU’s discriminatory policy of banning the cultivation of GM crops while allowing third country imports of GM feed. “GM soya could help us resist disease and reduce pesticide but we are forbidden from using it. That doesn’t make sense. Surely it would help farmers become more environmentally friendly in the long term,” he said.
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