He is chairman of the PGA Grains Committee.

“Since 1996, the area of farmland world-wide now committed to GM crops has reached nearly 2 billion acres," he says.

"GM technology in countries like the US and Canada is the norm rather than the exception.

“The WA Government wants to deny farmers the use of GM technology, and is telling us to cut back on water, fertiliser and fue.

"Bit it has no idea how farmers are going to feed an extra three billion people in the world over the next 30 years - on a diminishing amount of land.

“The Carpenter Government is also prepared to ignore the wisdom of state counterparts in NSW and Victoria, governments which are allowing their farmers to move ahead with GM crops.

“The WA stance is even more pointless when you consider that Australian imports of GM canola have increased to around 50,000 tonnes a year, spurred by the demand for the high Omega 3 content, and GM soybean imports have reached 500,000 tonnes a year.

“It's time Mr Carpenter and the retiring Mr Chance took a reality check.”