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2012-11-09 |

Genetically modified crops threaten Costa Rican agriculture

On Tuesday the 6th of November at 12:30 p.m., the first public signatures against Monsanto’s Genetically Modified corn seeds in Costa Rica will be delivered to the State Phytosanitary Service, a division of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock [...] Environmental organizations have formed a coalition against the planting of transgenic corn seeds in Costa Rica and will be taking direct action that day in order to protest the introduction of this crop into the country. [...] If the requests are approved, the companies would be allowed to plant 35 hectares of GM corn in Costa Rica.

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