Embrapa Will Charge Less Than Monsanto for Modified Sugar Cane
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Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria, Brazil’s state-owned agricultural research agency, plans to charge less than major seed companies including Monsanto Co., Bayer AG and Syngenta AG when it begins selling sugar cane that’s genetically engineered to resist drought.
The agency expects to field-test the crop in two years and may have it certified for commercial use by the National Biosafety Technical Commission in five years, Eduardo Romano, the Embrapa researcher coordinating the project, said today in a telephone interview from Brasilia.