PEI Farmers are taking the lead on GMO-free foods. With the demand for GMO-Free canola in Japan, the number of farmers growing GMO-free canola is increasing. Our provincial government would be wise to take heed of this and see the potential of PEI foodstuffs in Japanese markets. They should be encouraging more farmers to go GMO-free and market our products more to Japan. They are big population and with the Anne connection, we could really do well there I believe.

P.E.I. is growing more canola than ever before, fulfilling a demand for oilseed that is not contaminated with genetically modified crops.

There is so much interest in the product in Japan, a Japanese buyer now calls P.E.I. home for part of the year.

It's difficult to find places in the world where buyers can be confident the seed is free from contamination from genetically modified crops. Genetically modified canola is not grown on P.E.I., and this attracted Kosaku Morita of the Japanese company Marumo to the Island, where he has been living for several months.

Japan eager for P.E.I.'s non-GMO canola
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2010/11/08/pei-japan...