Agriculture Minister Kim Chance has raised the prospect of ending the State Government’s moratorium on genetically modified cotton, promising the controversial policy will be clarified before new expressions of interest are called for the long-awaited expansion of the Ord River irrigation scheme. The Government’s opposition to GM cotton is part of a moratorium that bans all GM crops and is not due to be reviewed until the end of next year. But the policy has been criticised by agriculture experts, who say GM cotton is more profitable than sugar, uses far less water and is integral to the expansion of the Ord.