With incredible speed, a handful of companies is taking over global--
development, production, processing and marketing of food. RAFI says
that 10 companies already control 40 percent of the world seed
business. Among these is the Novartis company. 2-20-98: Novartis adds
the 25 new patents to a growing portfolio of intellectual property.
To date, the company controls more than 50 patents surrounding
agricultural biotechnology, and has applications pending on more than
100 additional inventions.
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