date:Jan 16, 2014
China's agriculture ministry says there is still no timetable for the commercialisation of domestically developed genetically-modified strains of corn and rice, although the country is already the world's top buyer of GMO soy.
The ministry granted safety certificates for its first genetically-modified rice and corn in 2009 but has so far refused to authorise commercial production.
For GMO products, we are taking active but cautious measures, vice agriculture minister Chen Xiaohua told reporter