According to a statement on April 13, the ministry has established a routine monitoring system aimed at the discovery of illicit cultivation of transgenic vegetables. Three cases concerning transgenic corn seed were discovered in Xinjiang, Gansu and Hainan, the plants grown on 1.000 and 100 acres, respectively, were destroyed and the field owners were punished.
China Bio news release, April 14, 2016
Ministry of Agriculture cracked down on illicit transgenic crop cultivation