China Suspends Commercialization of Genetically-Engineered Rice
China Suspends Commercialization of Genetically-Engineered (GE) Rice. In late 2011, China’s major financial weekly, the Economic Observer, quoted an information source close to the Ministry of Agriculture saying that China had suspended the commercialization of GE rice. The campaign against GE rice focused on its threat to Chinese food sovereignty as multi-national companies – not Chinese farmers – stand to profit from the commercialization of GE rice from investments in technology and patents.