The agriculture Minister, Francisco Turra, confirmed to this newspaper yesterday that the negative reaction of Japan re. Turra returned last week from a trip to Japan where he met government members, businessmen and executives from trading companies. In his talks he clearly felt the interest of Japan to increase the importations of soya from Brazil, but at the same time he heard condemnations re. Brazil adopting transgenic soya. Or in other words, what would of greater advantage for Brazil - to adopt or not adopt transgenic soya.
Transgenic soya represents approx.
Apart from marketing discussions, the decision on the use of transgenic soya and its liberation in the country is being difficulted thru court actions. The other one originates from the congressman Fernando Ferro. These court actions have the goal of proibiting that the government liberates the planting, transporting, storing, comercialization, consume, import, liberating and throwing away of transgenic soya. The government took actions against but couldn't succeed so far that these court decisions were lifted.