NewsJuly 14, 2004
Monsanto gets OK to sell biotech corn in Argentina
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Monsanto Co. has received approval to sell in Argentina corn genetically modified to survive applications of the company's Roundup weedkiller. The St. Louis-based agricultural biotechnology company said the Argentine government on Tuesday authorized the use in that South American country of Monsanto's NK603 corn...
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Monsanto Co. has received approval to sell in Argentina corn genetically modified to survive applications of the company's Roundup weedkiller.
The St. Louis-based agricultural biotechnology company said the Argentine government on Tuesday authorized the use in that South American country of Monsanto's NK603 corn.
The corn will be available for Argentine farmers to plant this fall in limited quantities and should be available more widely in the 2005 and 2006 growing seasons.
Monsanto estimates that its corn products carrying so-called Roundup Ready and other traits in Argentina could reach five million acres.
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Roundup Ready soybeans and cotton -- as well as corn and cotton varieties genetically modified to resist insects -- already were approved for planting in Argentina.
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On the Net:
Monsanto Co., http://www.monsanto.com
do we need a line in here pnting out the signficance of this, i.e., nations' resistance to GE crops?
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