Are you equipped to handle implications of patented agriculture technologies? Who will control food supplies of the world? Today I was reading an interesting news item. Let me share with you all. Brazil soy exporters to police Monsanto biotech seeds- for a fee SAO PAULO (Reuters) - At least one soybean exporter in Brazil has agreed with Monsanto to collect royalties, in exchange for a fee, from farmers who planted genetically engineered seeds marketed by the company, according to industry sources. The landmark deal, already finalized by a firm that declined to be identified, highlights an increasingly complex relationship between global grain merchants and biotech firms. Other bigger merchants like ADM and Bunge will finalize agreements soon, the sources said, resolving a months-long dispute that had threatened to disrupt as much as a quarter of all soy shipments from the world’s second-largest grower. What will happen to farmers and compani...
