Monsanto Aims For 60% To 70% Of Northern Mexican Grain

Avatar for Matt Hopkins By Scott C. Lucas|1 February 2007

Monsanto hopes that within the next three to four years, 60% to 70% of Mexico’s northern area will be cultivated with transgenic grain. Juan Carlos Buitrago-Suarez, business director of Monsanto for Mexico and North Central America, said that the transgenic technology has a lot to offer the country. “In 2010, we will have available in the United States a modified corn seed resistant to drought. It could change Mexico’s agricultural frontier drastically, with the possibility of adding 4 million hectares of land into cultivation…land that is idle today,” he told the Mexican journal El Financiero.