Monsanto
Bayer courts Monsanto with preliminary buyout offer
19 May 2016
A successful deal would create a company with $68 billion in annual sales, nearly 28 per cent of the world's pesticides market share and about 36 per cent of US corn seeds and 28 per cent of soybean seeds
Monsanto eyes Bayer’s CropScience unit
21 Mar 2016
GM seed firm Monsanto welcome to quit India: minister
17 Mar 2016
The Modi government’s decision to cut royalties paid on Monsanto’s GM cotton seed by as much as 70 per cent has hurt the US firm, which has taken the matter to court - but for it to quit such a big market as India is not really an option
Monsanto threatens pull-out over proposed royalty fee cut on GM seeds
05 Mar 2016
While Mahyco Monsanto Biotech (India), argues that the government has no role in determining trade fee, the government panel was clear in its view that the crop cost for cotton farmers has gone up after MMB substantially raised fees for sub-licensing BT seed technology
GM seed companies back in action in Maharashtra
20 Oct 2015
Pest attack destroys GM cotton crop in Punjab, Haryana
10 Oct 2015
Pest attacks have destroyed crops of genetically modified cotton across Punjab and Haryana in the first major pest infestation since the country shifted to genetically modified cotton in 2002
Global protest over Monsanto’s GM crops, pesticides
25 May 2015
US biotech giant Monsanto is at the receiving end for its prime products, the co-called Roundup crops and neonicotinoid pesticides that have now turned up to be carcinogenic
Syngenta rejects $45 billion Monsanto takeover offer
09 May 2015
The offer comes less than a month after EU took a landmark decision to allow its 28 member states the freedom to decide whether to allow the planting of genetically modified crops
Monsanto GMO wheat found growing in Montana
27 Sep 2014
Monsanto sued by environmental group, farmers over GM wheat
07 Jun 2013
The modified wheat had been field-tested in 16 states, including Washington, from 1998 to 2005 by the company, which dropped the project and never sought US approval to market it
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