China's planting of indigenous insect-resistant cotton has accumulated to over 14.83 million acres since 1996, creating economic values of about USD 1.9 billion.

The market share of self-developed insect-resistant cotton has raised from five per cent in 1998 to 70 per cent in 2005, making China a world forerunner in cotton breeding.

In the early 1990s, China's cotton planting suffered serious insect pest, leading to huge economic losses.

Over the past 10 years, Chinese scientists have worked out a series of inventive results in transgenic insect-resistant cotton breeding; some of the new breeds are leading the world in both the insect-resistant quality and output capacity.

In the coming few years, China will further extend the planting of insect-resistant cotton in the Yellow River Valley and the Yangtze River Valley.

Source:佚名