DuPont Seed Sales Slowed as Ukraine Violence Intensifies
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DuPont Co.’s seed deliveries are being harmed by unrest in Ukraine, the world’s third-largest corn exporter, while agriculture companies such as Cargill Inc. are monitoring the intensifying anti-government insurgency.
Violent demonstrations are disrupting deliveries of seeds sold to Ukrainian and Russian farmers from DuPont’s new $40 million seed plant in eastern Ukraine, Paul Schickler, president of the Wilmington, Delaware-based company’s seed unit, said in an interview today.