Bidstrup lives up to every word in that description.
We have made a lot of progress,” says Bidstrup.
Jeff Bidstrup and his family grow cotton,
wheat, sorghum and chickpeas in Queensland, Australia.
The first winner of the award was Rosalie Ellasus of the Philippines,
and the 2008 winner was Jeff Bidstrup of Australia.
Bidstrup began to imagine how additional GM research in Australia
could help farmers with salinity and drought, as well as reduce chemical usage.
We have had
biotech cotton for more than a decade,” says Bidstrup, who grows grain and cotton on about 12,000 acres in Queensland,
a state in northeast Australia.
One of Australia's states(there are six of them) banned GM food crops, then all of them but
Queensland passed their own moratoriums in a matter of weeks,” says Bidstrup.