There are three different groups of countries in the world which keep different viewpoints about GMO. The first group includes the countries that advocate GMO, including the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, China, India and Australia. The second group comprises of the countries which do not support the new technology, mostly European countries. And the third group still keeps the wait-and-see attitude. In Vietnam, according to Dr Le Huy Ham, Head of the Agriculture Genetics Institute, only since 2007, did the state set up the directional plan to research and apply GMO. In the last few years, the development of genetically modified crops (GMC) in a trial basis has been allowed for some kinds of plants, such as cotton, corn, papaya and some forestry trees.