GMO-free agriculture is a strategic issue

Hungary treats the GMO-free status of agriculture as a strategic issue and acknowledged the importance of gene preservation among the first – the Parliamentary Minister of State of the Ministry of Agriculture said at a conference in Kozárd on Monday.

Farkas Sándor explained that the Parliament adopted the country’s GMO-free strategy in 2006 and that the GMO-free agriculture had been protected in basic legislation by 2012.

At the conference in Nógrád County, organized by the European Agricultural Pattern Protection Foundation and the International Association for the Gene Conservation of the Danube Region, Farkas Sándor stressed the importance of European agriculture being free from genetically modified organisms. (MTI)