[lbo-talk] GM in Brazil

Thiago Oppermann thiago_oppermann at bigpond.com
Wed Oct 8 06:43:39 PDT 2003


On 8/10/2003 9:38 PM, "lbo-talk-request at lbo-talk.org" <lbo-talk-request at lbo-talk.org> wrote:


>
> the soy belt in southern brazil is roughly 18 million hectares - as of
> a week or so ago, there was enough GM soy seed in brazil to plant about
> 1,500 hectares for research

According to my Gaucho contacts there already is a lot of GM soy growing in Brazil illegally. It is mostly smuggled into Paraguay, which has over the last few years become quite an exporter of soy. Soya laundering, as it were.

Thiago



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