The country's Minister for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Eva Kjer Hansen, says she believes there could be a place for the crops in Europe to help address broader concerns about food security, pesticide use and drought tolerant crops.

But Mrs Kjer Hansen's comment coincide with the removal of certain bread lines from stores across the country due to traces of GM ingredients, believed to have been sourced from Canada.

All GM ingredients are banned in Europe, although the regulatory authority behind the bread's removal did also advise there were no known health concerns associated with the bread in question.

In an interview with Rural Press this week, Mrs Kjer Hansen said more needed to be done to address the food needs of the growing number of people in the world.

She said she says she sees some opportunities in GM plants but there was a heavy debate on their use in Denmark and whether the country should be opened up to GM.

"We have people starving when we look around the world today. We know that we have a growing population, which means that we need even more food production than we have today," Mrs Kjer Hansen said.

"We need to have farming and food production going hand in hand with climate efforts and nature.

"I believe that we still have some research to do on GM, and there is a lack of development in some GM plants.

"But we've just done a report on this in my ministry and what we can see is that there is a potential and some possibilities, especially in the areas of droughts and reducing the use of pesticides."

Mrs Kjer Hansen said the Danish public should be open to the possible ways GM could help growing food and environmental needs.

"I think we have to look at what the possibilities are and then we can always argue about whether we then want to use them or not."