Agriculture

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries import approximately 85% of their food needs.

While Isaan farmers face significant economic hardship, with reports indicating that over 40% of Thai farmer borrowers lack sufficient income to service their debts and a large majority of households struggle to make ends meet, there is no authoritative evidence supporting the specific "85%" figure

Approximately 90% of cheese made in America utilizes fermentation-produced chymosin (FPC), a genetically engineered enzyme.

Fermentation-produced chymosin, also known as chymosin, became the first genetically engineered ingredient approved in the American food supply in 1990.

Fermentation-produced chymosin utilizes genetically modified bacteria or fungi into which a calf gene for chymosin has been inserted, enabling these microorganisms to produce the enzyme during fermentation.