By: Sustainable Pulse, 12/22/2013
The seeds of “US golden corn”, allegedly smuggled since 2003 from Hong Kong and Thailand, caused 200 acres of corn to fail last year in the Tongdao county of Huaihua according to local officials. The smuggled corn seeds were reported to be from Monsanto and Syngenta varieties. Police apprehended one of the main smugglers, Luo Haihong, who has allegedly imported over 500,000 tons of corn seeds since 2003, without permission.
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