• Herbicide tolerant GM oil seed rape offers a reduced need for ploughing and soil cultivation, which can lead to reduced soil erosion. A reduction in soil erosion would lead to the protection of the structure and biodiversity of soil as well as increase it’s organic matter content.
• The newer herbicides used on GM crops are much more environmentally benign than older herbicides.
• Higher yielding hybrid GM oil seed rape can provide a greater yield for farmers, meaning that farmers will be able to produce more crops from the same area of land.
• GM carnations have been altered to yield flowers with new and different colours or to last longer after being cut. This opens up new markets for farmers and horticulturalists.
• Insect resistant GM cotton offers farmers massive benefits in insect pest control with huge savings on pest control products and energy use.
• Insect resistant GM maize offers the grower, insect management with less spraying, less effects on the environment and non-target pests.
• Insect resistant GM maize results in less wound damage to plants, and consequently less infection from fungus and a reduction in harmful mycotoxins that are cancer causing.
• Because maize is a major crop for animal feed, less damage to the crop makes for a high quality feed for healthier animals.
• Insect resistant GM maize reduces pest control inputs, energy consumption and green house gas emissions.
• With genetic modifications, existing crops would be able to thrive under relatively hostile and harsh conditions- such as those in Africa, providing its people with much needed food (3).
• Golden rice, which is genetically modified rice varieties contain increased levels of vitamn A. The rice may serve to alleviate the vitamin A deficiency that contributes to the death of 500,000 people a year (3).

*Please note, the above percecived benefits were found here (9), except where otherwise noted.