Monsanto Gets OK for Corn Field Trials in Mexico
October 30, 2009| |
Monsanto Company received approval from Mexico's Agriculture and Environment Ministries to conduct corn field trials in Sonora. In a press release, Monsanto says this ends an 11-year moratorium on biotech corn research in the country.
"Through these trials, Mexican scientists will be able to obtain scientific data that will help us gain valuable insights on the best ways to manage this important crop in the Mexican environment," Jose Manuel Madero, Monsanto business lead for Latin America North.
A moratorium on biotech corn plantings was made in 1997 with the condition that it would be lifted once Mexico's regulatory framework was implemented. It was recently announced that the Mexican government approved the first field trials of genetically modified corn.
See Monsanto's press release at http://monsanto.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=760
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