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Monsanto Brazil to reopen molecular genetic laboratory in Uberlandia, Minas Gerais
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.

Copyright Valor Economico S.A.

Valor Economico S.A. via Checkbiotech

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