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 GM Crop Production
GMO Cultivation Area by Crop |
Soybean has become the world’s most successful genetically engineered crop. All  GM soybean planted today is herbicide resistant. The next most widespread GM crops are maize, cotton, and rapeseed. Genetically modified plantings of these four crops have increased continually over the last years.
| Global Area of Genetically Engineered Crops, 1996 to 2006: By Crop (million hectares) |
| Crop |
Soybean |
Maize |
Cotton |
Canola |
Squash |
Papaya |
Potato |
Total |
| 1996 |
0.5 |
0.3 |
0.8 |
0.1 |
-- |
-- |
<0.1 |
1.7 |
| 1997 |
5.1 |
3.2 |
1.4 |
1.2 |
-- |
-- |
<0.1 |
11.0 |
| 1998 |
14.5 |
8.3 |
2.5 |
2.4 |
0.0 |
0.0 |
<0.1 |
27.8 |
| 1999 |
21.6 |
11.1 |
3.7 |
3.4 |
<0.1 |
<0.1 |
<0.1 |
39.9 |
| 2000 |
25.8 |
10.3 |
5.3 |
2.8 |
<0.1 |
<0.1 |
<0.1 |
44.2 |
| 2001 |
33.3 |
9.8 |
6.8 |
2.7 |
<0.1 |
<0.1 |
<0.1 |
52.6 |
| 2002 |
36.5 |
12.4 |
6.8 |
3.0 |
<0.1 |
<0.1 |
-- |
58.7 |
| 2003 |
41.4 |
15.5 |
7.2 |
3.6 |
<0.1 |
<0.1 |
-- |
67.7 |
| 2004 |
48.4 |
19.3 |
9.0 |
4.3 |
<0.1 |
<0.1 |
-- |
81.0 |
| 2005 |
54.4 |
21.2 |
9.8 |
4.6 |
<0.1 |
<0.1 |
-- |
90.0 |
| 2006 |
58.6 |
25.2 |
13.4 |
4.8 |
-- |
-- |
-- |
102.0 |
| Source: ISAAA, Clive James, 2006. |
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