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Thu Jul 23, 2009 at 06:33:24 AM PDT
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| What a sad headline, on so many levels: "Monsanto GM corn fails massively in South Africa."
Many African nations are reluctant to try GMOs, but South Africa allows them. Corn is the country's main staple. From the article:
South African farmers suffered millions of dollars in lost income when 82,000 hectares of genetically-manipulated corn (maize) failed to produce hardly any seeds.The plants look lush and healthy from the outside. Monsanto has offered compensation.
Monsanto blames the failure of the three varieties of corn planted on these farms, in three South African provinces, on alleged 'underfertilisation processes in the laboratory". Some 280 of the 1,000 farmers who planted the three varieties of Monsanto corn this year, have reported extensive seedless corn problems. |
| Jill Richardson :: GM Corn FAIL |
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