Donald COLES - Managing Director - Valley Seeds, Australia

September 2002

Will the emerging trend towards organic seed have an impact in Australia?
Organic seed demand is complex. In Australia the organic industry is very small. The drive to strengthen organic standards, coupled with the extraordinary policy of no GM, has created a special new category of seed. As one local hybrid corn supplier said to me: "Organic seed is a myth, at least in the corn industry". 

 

 

 

 

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