{"id":8702,"date":"2012-03-08T14:59:47","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T12:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/s-africa-gm-crop-area-hit-record-in-201112-report\/"},"modified":"2012-03-08T14:59:47","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T12:59:47","slug":"s-africa-gm-crop-area-hit-record-in-201112-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-gm-crop-area-hit-record-in-201112-report\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa GM crop area hit record in 2011\/12 -report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, March 8<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s<br \/>\ngenetically modified (GM) crop area increased 100,000 hectares<br \/>\nto a record 2.3 million hectares in the 2011\/12 season from 2.2<br \/>\nmillion hectares in the season before, an industry report showed<br \/>\non Thursday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The land area cultivated under the staple maize was 1.9<br \/>\nmillion hectares, while genetically modified soya beans were<br \/>\nproduced on 450,000 ha and cotton on 15,000 ha, the report<br \/>\nissued by the International Service for the Acquisition of<br \/>\nAgri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) showed.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Ed Stoddard; Editing by David Dolan)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, March 8 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s genetically modified (GM) crop area increased 100,000 hectares to a record 2.3 million hectares in the 2011\/12 season from 2.2 million hectares in the season before, an industry report showed on Thursday. The land area cultivated under the staple maize was 1.9 million hectares, while genetically modified soya [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-8702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}