Sentences with phrase «giants of the agrochemical»

The broad brush also fails when labeling the developers of GM technology: Commercial giants of the agrochemical pesticide industry have developed GMOs, but so have academic scientists funded by nonprofits or the public sector.

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Arguing for the motion was Alison Van Eenennaam, a genomics and biotechnology researcher at the University of California, Davis, and Robert Fraley, executive vice president and chief technology officer at Monsanto, an agrochemical and agricultural biotechnology giant.

Speaking from the ongoing Organic World Congress in Istanbul, Turkey, Dr. Medina claimed that only the giant agrochemical companies benefit from the profits of GMO seeds and chemical inputs, while leaving the smallholder and family farmers poorer and hungrier.

Monsanto, a US - based company is now the biggest agrochemical giant in the world controlling almost a quarter of the global proprietary seed market.