Sentences with phrase «seed companies control»

There is massive concentration of ownership (two seed companies control 60 % of the market, four companies control 83 % of the meat packing industry) so that farmers have little control over the prices they sell their products for.

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But not everyone is over the moon about the tie up that will let one company control more than a quarter of the world's seeds and pesticides.

Today, six companies control 71 percent of the global seed market, according to ETC Group.

Ritz dismisses worries about the monopolistic control the technology would transfer to transnational seed companies by saying anti-competitive behaviour could be dealt with by Canada's Competition Bureau.

The merger will make the Bayer - Monsanto conglomerate the largest seed and pesticide company in the world, giving it enormous power to control farm practices, putting private profits over the public interest.

«We are a vertically integrated company controlling the product at every level of the operation from seed development, planting, growing, harvesting, transporting, processing and packaging up to a million pounds of onions on a daily basis,» Director of Sustainability Nikki Rodoni declares.

The company also uses a computer - controlled potato planter to accurately control seed placement and three computerized low - drift ground sprayers to place soil insecticide.

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

But because of the Chinese government's concern about foreign control of China's seed industry, Pray says, officials have allowed the company to commercialize only one hybrid cultivar.

Six companies now control 98 percent of the world's seed sales; the largest of these is Monsanto.

If allowed to continue unchecked, the farms of the future will be extensions of the GM seed companies, and that really means Monsanto, and they will control the prices and production of a vital commodity....

As such diversification of seed type is restricted and reduced, this variety in a crop is what nature provides to prevent one pest or disease wiping out part of our food supply, but worse than that a GM company is now in control of part of the food chain.

That gives Monsanto complete control over seed companies because no seed company could survive without selling Round Up Ready Seeds.

I believe there is absolutely a direct relationship between living with too much and living with not enough... we have in every part of the world lost control of our food systems to agribusiness... [referring to Monsanto] a number of companies... have quite systematically removed seed banks, have contaminated [and] diminished the genetic material that all people in the world have with which to feed themselves, and it's a terrifying problem.

«This new mega corporation would be the world's biggest seed maker and pesticide company, defying important antitrust protections, giving it unacceptable control over critical aspects of our food supply — undermining consumer choice and the freedom and stability of farmers worldwide.»