Industry opposes plan to grow modified rice in Kansas

Monday, April 2, 2007

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. rice industry wants the federal government to reject a plan to grow genetically modified rice in Kansas, saying the country's growers would suffer "financial devastation" if modified crops contaminate the commercial supply.

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