Argentina: Rural Union denounces Monsanto

Argentina’s Sociedad Rural (SRA), an agricultural advocacy union, has presented a complaint against the multinational agro-chemicals firm Monsanto before the newly reformed National Competition Defence Commission (CNDC). The group accused the company of setting up abusive and illicit practices in the sale of their Intacta RR2 PRO seed. The seed is genetically modified proprietary technology, created to be resistant to the company’s own pesticides.

“Monsanto forces growers to renounce their rights, as enshrined in the Seeds Law 20,247, trying to charge royalties for alleged uses of Intellectual Property rights that the National law does not grant them.” Said the SRA.

According to the statement issued by the union, Monsanto’s system “through abuse of their dominant position in the market, alters the entire sale and production chain of soy, violates constitutional rights and makes a dead writ of our national laws. ..” The new CNDC will review the case in coming weeks.

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