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en un principio era su raiz. WOW que haremos, a que tener una finquita.
jejej....Besos francis
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>Subject: [ecofem] RadTimes: Monsanto sees U.S. bio-crop growth despite GM
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>Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 21:10:21 -0800
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>Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 12:13:29 -0800
>From: radman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [radtimes] # 145
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>Tuesday January 30, 2001
>
>Monsanto sees U.S. bio-crop growth despite GM row
>
>By Ben Hirschler
>
>DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Agricultural biotechnology giant
>Monsanto Co (NYSE:MON - news) said on Tuesday U.S. farmers would plant more
>land with its genetically modified seed in 2001, despite global concerns
>about such crops.
>``We are very confident that in 2001 there are going to be more biotech
>acres than there were in 2000,'' Chief Executive Officer Hendrik Verfaillie
>told Reuters on the fringes of the World Economic Forum's annual meeting.
>``The intention surveys indicate we are going to have significant growth in
>Roundup Ready soybeans, moderate growth in corn and good growth in
>cotton...our seed sales in December confirm that.''
>U.S. farmers buy most of their seed for spring sowing between November and
>February and widely plant genetically modified crops, despite consumer
>resistance in major markets like Europe and Japan where health concerns
>have been raised.
>More than half the U.S. soybean crop, 25 percent of corn and over 70
>percent of cotton output is produced from GM seed, analysts estimate.
>Monsanto's Roundup Ready varieties are resistant to the weedkiller Roundup,
>allowing more effective crop management, while its Bt corn contains an
>in-built pesticide.
>Controversy over GM crops reached a new peak at the end of last year
>following the discovery that many brands of taco shells and chips contained
>StarLink, a biotech corn variety sold by Aventis SA which is not approved
>for human consumption.
>StarLink's Cry9C protein was also found in another variety of corn, raising
>fears about the uncontrolled spread of foreign crop genes.
>Monsanto, a unit of drug group Pharmacia Corp (NYSE:PHA - news) which
>listed on the New York Stock Exchange in October, has been at the forefront
>of controversy over GM crops.
>Verfaillie said his company was listening hard to activists. The company
>two months ago issued a pledge on GM food, including a commitment not to
>use animal genes in food or feed crops.
>SPREADING IN LATAM, ASIA
>Farmers around the world were following the U.S. example of buying more of
>the company's GM seed, he said.
>``We expect the whole of Latin America is going to move very rapidly. In
>Argentina we went in three years from zero to 90 percent market share in
>soy,'' Verfaille said.
>"I think we are going to see the same kind of penetration in corn in
>Argentina and with soybean, corn and cotton in Brazil.
>In Asia, biotech crops were making ``very good progress'' in India,
>Thailand, Malaysia, China and Australia.
>``Even in Europe, Bulgaria and Poland have gone biotech...Western Europe is
>the only one holding out.''
>According to the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech
>Applications, an independent agency tracking the use of biotech crops, a
>total of 13 countries planted GM crops in 2000.
>The U.S. accounted for 68 percent of the world's transgenic crop, followed
>by Argentina with 23 percent and Canada with seven percent.
>Monsanto plans to build on that market in the years ahead by extending its
>gene-splicing technology to other crops. It hopes to introduce a new GM
>wheat variety in the United States as early as 2003.
>
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