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The commercial seed industry has undergone tremendous consolidation in thelast 40 years as transnational corporations entered this agricultural sector, and acquired or merged with competing firms. This trend is associated with impacts that constrain theopportunities for renewable agriculture, such as reductions in seed lines and a declining prevalence of seed saving. To better characterize the current structure of the industry,ownership changes from 1996 to 2008 are represented visually with information graphics.Since the commercialization of transgenic crops in the mid-1990s, the sale of seeds has become dominated globally by Monsanto, DuPont and Syngenta and more. See info graphic for more info.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:18:12 +0000

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