REUTERS, 8 September 2005
KIEV - Ukraine's Farm Ministry said on Wednesday it would ask
the government and the parliament to ban imports and planting
of genetically modified (GMO) soybeans in the country.
We are going to adopt a decision to ban planting and imports
of GMO soybeans," Ivan Dymchak, deputy farm minister, told
reporters. "At the moment we are talking only about soybeans.
"We want to have the status of a country which produces only
clean agriculture products," he added.
Ukraine is a traditional importer of soy meal and imported
78,200 tonnes in the 2003/04 season and 74,300 in 2002/03.
It has imported 47,700 tonnes so far this season.
Ukraine imports soy meal mostly from Brazil.