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BT cotton
What are the benefits?
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Since 1992, there has been a 97% decrease in insecticide use.
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How is it made?
Known as Bt or Ingard® cotton, the cotton was developed by CSIRO, using a gene owned by Monsanto. This gene was sourced from the soil bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), and it enabled the plant to produce the Bt protein which killed cotton's major pest, heliothis or the cotton bollworm, when it ate the leaves.