Friday, May 23, 2014

Syngenta says it will comply with Jackson County GMO crops ban | OregonLive.com

Syngenta says it will comply with Jackson County GMO crops ban | OregonLive.com:



"A spokesman for Syngenta, the Swiss biotechnology firm that grows genetically engineered sugar beets in Jackson County, says the company will comply with a measure passed Tuesday that bans genetically engineered crops.



 "If we can no longer cultivate or grow any GE crop there, then we wouldn't do it,"  Paul Minehart, a spokesman for Syngenta, said in a phone interview Friday.



"Whatever the provisions are, of course, we would abide by the law."

Syngenta leases a number of fields around Jackson County to grow its sugar beets for seed sales.



But its co-existence alongside organic growers in the narrow Rogue River Valley has caused friction. "


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