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NSW Govt urged to reveal GM canola farmsThe New South Wales Opposition says farmers need to be told where the state’s first genetically modified (GM) crops will be planted.The move became legal in New South Wales yesterday.Nationals MP Rick Colless says it is now up to the Government to inform people where the first GM crops will be grown.”If there are neighbouring farmers they need to know if they are going to have GM crops next door to them,” he said.”I think Mr Macdonald made those locations public so that we can make sure that all farmers, both GM and non-GM growers, can take the right precautions to make sure there’s no mixing of this material.”Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald says he does not know where the first crops will be planted, because it is not something he is required to give approval for.Asked whether anything had come across his desk that would suggest where the crops would be grown, he replied: “No, and I wouldn’t be involved in that.”A spokeswoman for the Federal Office of Gene Technology says it is up to the industry to regulate GM crops and she says they do not have to give advance notice about where they will be planted.

NSW Govt urged to reveal GM canola farms – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Monsanto really have the NSW government in their back pocket .

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