Monday, February 26, 2007
Cotton and the Hegemony of Monsanto
A recent article (Monsanto Merger Sows Fears over Skewed Seed Market - The NewStandard) discusses the pending merger between Monsanto, the world's largest seed corporation, and Delta and Pine Land, one of the largest US cotton seed companies. From the article:
"The US cotton-seed market is already highly concentrated. According toan analysis of industry and government agricultural data by the Centerfor Food Safety and the International Center for Technology Assessment, nearly 90 percent of US cotton acreage is planted with genetically engineered cotton-seed varieties, nearly all containing traitsdeveloped by Monsanto."
technorati tags:monsanto, biotech, cotton, gmo
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