Around the world, small farmers are finding themselves facing the onslaught of agro-giant Monsanto that appears to be seeking to monopolize the agricultural seed market.
In the United States, family farmers will take part in the first phase of a court case on January 31 filed to protect farmers from genetic trespass by Monsanto’s GMO seed, which is said to contaminate organic and non-GMO farmer’s crops and opens them up to abusive lawsuits, according to Food Democracy Now. In the past two decades, Monsanto’s seed monopoly has grown so powerful that they control the genetics of nearly 90 percent of five major commodity crops including corn, soybeans, cotton, canola and sugar beets, says the NGO.
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