A Mexican federal judge has ruled against a request by the country’s National Farm Council to freeze a government plan to ban genetically modified corn and a widely used herbicide, glyphosate, by 2024.

Mexico is sticking to a plan to stop importing genetically modified corn and ban glyphosate, a widely used herbicide.

In the midst of a food crisis and shortages worsened by the coronavirus pandemic, Cuba has officially opened the door to GM crops as a “complement to conventional agriculture”.

Despite lawsuits and regulations, Bayer is developing new genetically engineered corn designed to work with five herbicides, including glyphosate and dicamba.

A major change to the regulation of biotech in the United States will exempt some GM crops from government oversight.

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