Brazil farmers in legal feud with Monsanto over GM soy: Campo Novo De Parecis, Brazil (AFP) June 3, 2012
Illegally smuggled into Brazil 14 years ago, transgenic soy has proved a boon to domestic farmers and now accounts for 85 percent of total production.
But five million Brazilian farmers are now locked in a legal feud with US biotech giant Monsanto, the GM soy seed manufacturer, and are refusing to pay crop royalties.
In the mid-1990s Monsanto began commercializing its genetically modifie
Illegally smuggled into Brazil 14 years ago, transgenic soy has proved a boon to domestic farmers and now accounts for 85 percent of total production.
But five million Brazilian farmers are now locked in a legal feud with US biotech giant Monsanto, the GM soy seed manufacturer, and are refusing to pay crop royalties.
In the mid-1990s Monsanto began commercializing its genetically modifie
