24 POTATO GROWER | JANUARY 2017
DO GMOS HAVE AN IMPACT
ON THE ENVIRONMENT?
Many GMOs are specifically developed to lessen or improve agriculture's impact
on the environment. Among other things, GMOs have proven to aid in the
following:
• Increasing agricultural land's productivity, alleviating pressure to convert
more land into ag use
• Reducing soil erosion by allowing growers to adopt practices
such as conservation tillage
• Conserving water
• Helping growers reduce their
carbon footprint because of less
time spent operating tractors
and sprayers
• Reducing
pesticide
applications