HAMBURG, Jan 31 (Reuters) - German chemicals group BASF BASF.DE plans to cultivate a type of potato with genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) in Germany and Sweden in 2011, the company said on Monday.
Two hectares of the GMO potato Amflora will be cultivated in Germany and 15 hectares in Sweden, BASF Crop Science said. No cultivation will be carried out in the Czech Republic where the potato was planted in 2010.
Amflora is used for industrial starch production, not food, and has been approved as safe for commercial production by the European Union.
Most Swedish plantings will be for seeds for cultivation in 2012, BASF said.
In September 2010, BASF said that Amflora had been mistakenly grown among unapproved GMOs undergoing research cultivation in Sweden.
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