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after a moratorium of 11 years, Monsanto has already placed the first commercial transgenic maize seeds in Sonora and Dow AgroSciences expects to begin experimental planting this week.
For Monsanto started preparations since Thursday in a field of two hectares Cajeme Township, belonging to "farmers cooperative" interested in testing the benefits biotechnology. Researchers
Sonora Institute of Technology (ITSON) and inspectors from the National Health Service, Food Safety and Quality (SENASA) verify that they comply with all biosecurity measures ordered by the Ministries of Agriculture and Environment.
In an interview with Excelsior, Eduardo Perez Pico, director of New Technologies and Regulatory Affairs, Monsanto announced that for this first experimental planting were used just under 30 kilograms of white corn seed produced in Puerto Rico and Honduras, which entered Mexico on the border with Arizona.
explained that it is resistant maize insect attack Lepidoptera, Coleoptera and tolerant to herbicides.
"The evidence will be established with the three technologies that authorized: herbicide-tolerant corn, herbicide-tolerant maize with resistance to insect attack of the sheet and corn, and corn triple, insect-resistant foliage , root insects and tolerant to herbicides, "explained the executive.
The manager of Monsanto said that the three events will be tested in the same field, to a lesser extent than one hectare, provided with irrigation system and located in an area that regularly grows wheat and beans.
"The land measures a total of two hectares, the transgenic maize carrying nothing more than a hectare, the rest in the other hectare in the control, the same corn hybrid adapted to the region but biotechnology and then compare results, "said ...
PAPAYA
contains vitamin A, vitamin C, B complex, potassium, magnesium, fiber, Folic acid and small amounts of calcium and iron.
An antioxidant and prevent breast, bladder, colon or cervix.
Acts against premature aging.
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protects the heart.
combat smoking and alcoholism.
A good resource is to increase fertility in men but not very suitable for fertility in women.
promote digestion, preventing gastritis and the formation of gases.
Removes roundworms.
facilitates menstruation.
increases milk production in nursing women.
expulsion Help liquids and is suitable for diets.
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more easily Remove crusts from injuries, leaving the skin impious.
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also be used to make facial creams.
fluid is used to clean contact lenses.
papaya cultivation in Mexico is given in the states of Chiapas
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