Costa Rica Star, Marcel Evans on December 6, 2012 in Costa Rica News, Health News
In the past
The Costa Rica Star has published extensively on Monsanto and GMO products.
The
official response to the request by Monsanto for seed planting and research is
being hampered by lobbyists who are opposed to the concept.
Elfinancierocr.com
reports that “The National Biosafety Technical Commission requested further
studies on the impacts of transgenic corn planting in Costa Rica by the
Monsanto company, meaning that they are still unable to define whether or not
the permit will be granted.”
The permit
was requested by the company D & PL Seeds Ltd, a subsidiary of Monsanto
International, in early November 2012. The plan was to grow between 1 and 2
hectares of crops genetically modified to be resistant to one type of pest and
to provide tolerance to a herbicide (glyphosate).
Farmers and
environmental groups have expressed fears that the crops requested, even though
they are in small areas, could modify the genes of local grains, enabling
lawsuits by Monsanto for violation of patent ownership.
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