MUCH of the British countryside may be off-limits to genetically modified crops before the government even decides if they can be grown commercially.
The reason is organic farming, which is becoming ever more popular in Britain. If it continues to boom, many potential GM crop sites will disappear, a computer model suggests. But rather than one type of crop replacing the other, the land will instead be given over to the buffer zones designed to keep organic and GM crops apart.
For instance, GM maize cannot be planted within 200 metres of organic crops. This buffer zone is designed to…
