路透社的数据， 据报道，墨西哥将于 10 月决定是否允许试验性种植转基因玉米 (GM)， 农业部 官员周一表示。 2008 年，墨西哥通过立法规范批准转基因作物的程序，但环保主义者和一些农民反对引进转基因植物。玉米在墨西哥的饮食和文化中起着至关重要的作用。墨西哥南部的小生产者担心转基因作物可能会消灭当地独特的品种。
Three US companies — DuPont Co., Dow Chemical and Monsanto — have filed applications with the Mexican government for permission to begin testing their GM corn strains. If experimental plantings are approved this month, it still could be years before commercial sales are permitted.
“At this point we are working to draw up the permit necessary to authorize an experimental planting in the (winter) season,” said Enrique Sanchez, the agriculture ministry’s director of plant and animal health.