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April 3, 2003 -- CropChoice news -- Rediff.com:
US company Monsanto's license has been suspended
by the Bihar government in response to accusations that
Monsanto supplied substandard or contaminated seeds
to farmers. Monsanto's Kargil 900 m' maize crop cultivated
over 140,000 hectares of land in Bihar has failed and
the state government has ordered an inquiry into the
fiasco.
Lured by the promise of high yield - 80 to 85 quintal
per acre - the farmers of flood-affected districts of
Darbhanga Sitamarhi, Muzaffarpur, Madhubani, East Champaran
and West Champaran sowed Kargil seeds on a large scale...
For more information: http://www.rediff.com/money/2003/apr/02maize.htm
and http://www.rediff.com/money/2003/apr/03maize.htm
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