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I expect that the fall in ag chemicals is correlated to the increase in
GM
cotton since cotton uses nearly 25% of the insecticide in the world.

Your pro-GM explanation does not explain this:

"Latin American agrochemical sales experienced the largest decline,
with sales down by 3.8% to US $3.4 billion total. The Asia/Pacific
market fell by 1.8% in 2002, to US $7.15 billion."

No Bt cotton is grown in Latin America and very little in
Asia/Pacific...

regards
Marcus

Gordon used cotton as an example. The original post didn't mention cotton,
and therefore soya and similar are included in the figures.
The amounts of GM soya being grown is increasing in the areas mentioned.

Interestingly in the UK it seems a lot of the fuss over GM is beginning to
blow over. While the supermarkets may be claiming to source only non-gm
ingredients, they have given up insisting that English dairy farmers source
only GM free soya because they are not willing to pay a premium to cover the
cost

Jim Webster