Replies to post #115120 on Biotech Values

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MON’s Intacta will not require growers to plant an insect refuge:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-05/monsanto-says-brazil-requires-no-refuge-for-new-modified-soybean.html

The lack of a refuge requirement considerably enhances the desirability of this product for Brazilian growers. Intacta, which offers protection from an equatorial soybean pest, is MON’s first genetically-modified seed developed expressly for a country other than the US (#msg-55517002).

[DewDiligence]

Washington Post on Brazilian agriculture, especially biotech soybeans:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/in-sign-of-growing-clout-brazils-corn-helps-hold-up-us-market/2012/11/18/3f1c8e0e-2ce3-11e2-89d4-040c9330702a_story_1.html

State-backed research since the 1970s has turned the Cerrado — once considered unproductive scrubland — into a vast farm belt.

…Brazil has adapted the soybean — native to the temperate areas of China — to make it thrive in tropical conditions. And the country has invested heavily in the application of nutrients needed to make the Cerrado productive.

Already, Brazil’s output is critical to world supply. The boatloads of soybeans shipped from here to China are central to feeding the world’s largest country at a time when it is becoming richer and consuming more per person.

This is why MON has invested so much money on the Intacta product (#msg-76031314, #msg-53568148, #msg-60109375) which will be grown in commercial volumes during the 2013-2014 southern-hemisphere season.