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To: Anthony Wong who wrote (1285)2/22/1999 4:13:00 PM
From: TheSlowLane  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 2539
 
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To: Anthony Wong who wrote (1285)2/22/1999 4:51:00 PM
From: Anthony Wong  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 2539
 
02/22 15:49 *KEY BRAZIL STATE MOVES TO BAN PLANTING OF MONSANTO TRANSGENIC SOY-AG SECRETARY

SAO PAULO, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Brazil's second-largest soybean-producing
state of Rio Grande do Sul is trying to ban planting of genetically modified
soybeans produced by a local unit of U.S. biotechnology giant Monsanto Co.
<MTC.N>, the state's agriculture secretary said.

"We have decided that they should be prohibited," the state's Agriculture
Secretary Jose Hermeto Hoffamann told Reuters.

"What we are doing now is looking into the ways that this legally can be done,"
he added.