Brasil
April 28, 2005
Monsanto
researches seeds in Brazil
Source:
Valor Economico S.A.
via Checkbiotech
The US multinational corporation
Monsanto will reopen
this year one molecular genetic laboratory in Uberlandia (Minas
Gerais) with the aim of carrying on base researches for the
development of new soybean, corn and cotton transgenic seeds.
The project is part of an action
plan that the company will put into practice after the
regulation of the Biosecurity Law and that will allow the
researches in Brazil.
At present, Monsanto holds four research facilities in Brazil -
Uberlandia, Nao-Me-Toque (Rio Grande do Sul), Santa Cruz das
Palmeiras (Sao Paulo) and Santa Helena de Goias (Goias) where
the company undertakes tests of seeds adaptation, which
transgenic characteristics are developed abroad.
Monsanto also plans to undertake researches with transgenic in
the facilities of Rolandia (Parana) and Sorriso (Mato Grosso)
where it tests the ordinary corn and soybean seeds.
In the past ten years Monsanto invested US$1bil in Brazil
including the acquisition of five seeds companies in the period
between 1995 and 1997, erection of a herbicides raw material
plant in Camacari (Bahia) and research facilities in Uberlandia
and Sorriso.
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