28th January, 2015,  According to a report published from Beijing  on the 28 January 2015, a record 181.5 million hectares of biotech crops were grown globally, an increase of more than six million hectares from 2013, according to a report released today by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA). With the addition of Bangladesh, a total of 28 countries grew biotech crops during the last year. The 20 developing and eight industrial countries where biotech crops are produced represent more than 60 percent of the world’s population