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2007-04-12 | permalink
Ventria plans to start small with GE pharma rice in Kansas (USA)
A California company that seeks to create the nation’s first genetically modified rice crop plans to start small, contracting in April with Kansas farmers to plant about 200 acres of the grain.
Ventria Bioscience received preliminary approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture three weeks ago of a large-scale plan to grow rice modified to produce human proteins on more than 3,000 acres of farmland near Junction City.
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2007-04-12 | permalink
Ventria plans to start small with GE pharma rice in Kansas (USA)
A California company that seeks to create the nation’s first genetically modified rice crop plans to start small, contracting in April with Kansas farmers to plant about 200 acres of the grain.
Ventria Bioscience received preliminary approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture three weeks ago of a large-scale plan to grow rice modified to produce human proteins on more than 3,000 acres of farmland near Junction City.
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