澳大利亚地广人稀,国土面积约770万km2,截至2007年6月30日,人口2101.7万,其中农业人口35万,占总人口的1.69%,耕地面积4.45亿hm2,人均耕地面积21hm2。由于农业自然资源丰富,澳大利亚并没有利用转基因技术提高农产品产量的压力和要求,相反每年大量农产品出口海外市场。近年来,随 Australia is sparsely populated and has a land area of ​​about 7.7 million km2. As of June 30, 2007, it had a population of 21.017 million, of which agricultural population was 350,000, accounting for 1.69% of the total population. The cultivated area was 445 million hm2 and the per capita cultivated land was 21hm2. Due to abundant natural resources in agriculture, Australia does not have the pressure and requirements to use GM technologies to increase the output of agricultural products. On the contrary, a large amount of agricultural products are exported to overseas markets every year. In recent years, with