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The crops could mutate and become super weeds, requiring extra strong herbicides to control, kill other insects and birds and contaminate different rice species, it said.  <\/p>\n<p>In April last year, Greenpeace said it had found that the unapproved transgenic rice was illegally grown on a large scale in Hubei, one of China&#8217;s top rice-growing provinces, and that the rice was also on sale in the two major cities.   <\/p>\n<p>A government committee failed to reach a consensus on the safety of genetically modified rice in November, putting off a decision on what could be the world&#8217;s first large-scale production of the grain. China has not approved sales of any kind of genetically modified rice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetark.com\/dailynewsstory.cfm\/newsid\/37034\/story.htm\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transgenic rice is a direct threat to China&#8217;s environment and biodiversity and will not benefit farmers, Greenpeace said on Wednesday, calling on the government to think twice about its commercialisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"country":[],"class_list":["post-25147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Greenpeace 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