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Ontario | Monsanto purchases Holdens for the genetic platform in which to place their biotech traits. Most of the companies they have purchased have been marketing firms, not technology developers. Channel Bio is made up of relatively smaller regional companies who only sell seed. Actually, companies like Sygenta started the trend of purchasing market share when they bought Golden Harvest, Gaarst, etc,
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List of Companies bought by Monsanto
(1995 – 2005)
Year Name of Company Additional information
1995 FT PESQUISA E SEMENTES
LTDA
Soybean Based in Brazil
1996 HYBRITECH EUROPE SA Wheat
includes Company MORSTAR, Czech Republic,
HYBRITECH SEED INT'L already part of Monsanto
since 1982
1996 EURALIS Maize corn, wheat, soybean
Monsanto bought 10% of the shares
1996 CALGENE INC Cotton, rape seed, GE tomato `flavr savr´
bought for 322 million US$
STONEVILLE PEDIGREE SEED CO, was part of
CALGENE, sold 1999 to HICKS, MUSE, TATE & FURST
INC, merged with EMERGENT, bought again from
Monsanto in 2005
1996 AGRACETUS INC Cotton, holder of broad patents on cotton, rice, soybeans
and others
1996 AGRIPRO SEED Wheat
1996 GOLDEN HARVEST SEEDS
INC
Maize corn, soybeans, strategic alliance
1996 FORBIO LTD Potato, joint Venture
1996 AGRIBIOTECH INC Feed crops joint-venture
1996 TERRAZAWA Soybeans, Brazil
1996 FT SEMENTES Soybeans, Brazil
1997 HOLDEN’S FOUNDATION
SEEDS
Maize corn, bought for 1 billion US $
1997 CORN STATES HYBRID
SERVICE
Maize corn
1997 ASGROW SEED CO Soybeans, bought for 240 Mi US$
1997 CUSTOM FARM SEED Maize corn
1997 Sementes Agroceres SA Maize corn, biggest supplier in Brazil
1997 MONSOY Soybeans, one of the biggest soybean supplier in Brazil
1997 STINE SEED Soja Cooperation treaty
1998 MAHARASHTRA HYBRID
SEED COMPANY (MAHYCO)
Cotton and others
biggest seed company in India
MONSANTO INDIA has 26% of the shares
additional joint venture on GE cotton seed MAHYCO
MONSANTO BIOTECH (MMB)
V.i.S.d.P.: Christoph Then, Greenpeace e.V., Große Elbstr. 39, 22767 Hamburg 4/2005 Seite 1
Year Name of Company Additional information
1998 DEKALB GENETICS CORP Maize corn, soybeans, bought for 2,5 Billion US$
second largest maize corn seed company in the world
including Brazilian company BRASKALB
1998 DELTA & PINE LAND CO
(D&PL)
Cotton, soybeans, exchange of shares at a volume of
1,9 Billion US$, deal includes
HARTZ COTTON,
ELLIS BROTHERS SEED, ARIZONA PROCESSING,
MISSISSIPPI SEED CO,
SURE GROW SEEDS;
CDM MANDIY;
JACOB HARTZ SEED CO
1998 FIRST LINE SEEDS Soybeans, deal completed in 2004
1998 CARGILL INC -
INTERNATIONAL SEED
OPERATIONS
Maize corn and others, bought for about 1,4 Billion US$;
Comprises business in Europe, Latin America, Asia and
Africa
1998 RALLIS Vegetables, maize corn, sorghum, soybean, cotton,
others, leading Indian seed company
cooperation on distribution.
1998 AGROSEED CORP Philippines
1998 FORAGE GENETICS INC Alfalfa, Cooperation treaty
1998 PLANT BREEDING
INTERNATIONAL
CAMBRIDGE (PBIC)
Potato, wheat, others, bought for 525 million US$
including German PBI SAATZUCHT
1998 ANHUI AN DAI COTTON
SEED TECHNOLOGY CO LTD
Joint-venture between D&PL CHINA (49%) und ANHUI
PROVINCIAL SEED CORP (51%)
1998 E.I.D. PARRY (INDIA) LTD Cotton, joint-venture
1999 RENESSEN LLC Maize corn, soybean
joint venture between MONSANTO and CARGILL
1999 ZIMBABWE COTTON
COMPANY (COTTCO)
MONSANTO tried to buy 51 % of COTTCO against the
will of Zimbabwe government. Outcome still unclear
(2002)
1999 SENSANKO Maize corn, wheat, sunflower, acquisition completed in
2000, based in South Africa In 2000 Monsanto has a
market share of about 45% in corn and nearly 100% in
wheat in South Africa.
1999 NATIONAL SEED COMPANY
OF MALAWI (NSCM)
Maize corn
2001 AVENTIS CROPSCIENCE Cooperation treaty for cotton seed market
2001 CDM MANDIYU S.R.L. Joint venture between D&PL / MONSANTO (60%
shares) and Argentian seed company CENTRO
INTEGRAL AGROPECUARIA (CIAGRO) on GE cotton
2001 LIMAGRAIN CANADA SEEDS
INC
Rape seed
V.i.S.d.P.: Christoph Then, Greenpeace e.V., Große Elbstr. 39, 22767 Hamburg 4/2005 Seite 2
Year Name of Company Additional information
2002 CORNWORLD BREEDING
SYSTEM CORP
Maize corn, Philippines
2003 NIDERA (SEMILLAS) SA Soybeans, maize corn, rape seed, sunflower, sorghum,
alfalfa
2004 ADVANTA BV NORTH
AMERICAN CANOLA SEED
ASSETS
Rape seed
2004 CHANNEL BIO CORP Maize corn, bought for 120 million US$, includes
WILSON SEEDS, CROW'S MIDWEST SEED
GENETICS, CROW'S HYBRID CORN CO
2005 SEMINIS INC World leading company on vegetable and fruit seeds
bought for 1 Billion US$
2005 EMERGENT GENETICS INC Cotton bought for 300 million US$
see also above, STONEVILLE PEDIGREE SEED CO
includes two Indian companies:
MAHENDRA HYBRID SEEDS CO PARAS EXTRA
GROWTH SEEDS LTD
2005 HAZERA GENETICS Cotton Cooperation treaty
2005 NC+ HYBRIDS INC Maize corn, integrated into Monsanto´s AMERICAN
SEEDS
Edited by farmer in ontario 12/30/2009 21:06
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