Comments on: NCER: Transforming agriculture – for whom? http://anilnetto.com/agrobusinessgm-food/ncer-transforming-agriculture-for-whom/ Let justice flow like a mighty river Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:47:27 +0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: anilnetto http://anilnetto.com/agrobusinessgm-food/ncer-transforming-agriculture-for-whom/comment-page-1/#comment-164 anilnetto Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:40:25 +0000 http://anilnetto.com/2007/09/18/ncer-transforming-agriculture-for-whom/#comment-164 Hi Devlin! Yes its cause for concern. Sime Darby has signed a joint venture deal with CAAS. CAAS will provide the joint venture firm with "suitable selected germplasm". Beyond that, I don't know where they are going to get it from. Might be worth checking out the CAAS website. But the idea is also to reduce reliance on other imported seeds. We need to focus on what Sime Darby/CAAS will do at the seed centre they are setting up in Perlis, in northern Malaysia. cheers Hi Devlin!
Yes its cause for concern. Sime Darby has signed a joint venture deal with CAAS. CAAS will provide the joint venture firm with “suitable selected germplasm”. Beyond that, I don’t know where they are going to get it from. Might be worth checking out the CAAS website.
But the idea is also to reduce reliance on other imported seeds. We need to focus on what Sime Darby/CAAS will do at the seed centre they are setting up in Perlis, in northern Malaysia.

cheers

]]> By: Devlin Kuyek http://anilnetto.com/agrobusinessgm-food/ncer-transforming-agriculture-for-whom/comment-page-1/#comment-163 Devlin Kuyek Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:25:32 +0000 http://anilnetto.com/2007/09/18/ncer-transforming-agriculture-for-whom/#comment-163 Dear Anil, Interesting article. NCER sounds like a real disaster. Do you know who Sime Darby's Chinese partner is in their seed venture? I heard mention of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), but typically these Chinese public instituions conduct foreign seed deals through their private spin-offs. There are a number of private seed companies associated with CAAS. Thanks if you can supply the info. All the best, Devlin GRAIN (www.grain.org) Dear Anil,

Interesting article. NCER sounds like a real disaster. Do you know who Sime Darby’s Chinese partner is in their seed venture? I heard mention of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), but typically these Chinese public instituions conduct foreign seed deals through their private spin-offs. There are a number of private seed companies associated with CAAS. Thanks if you can supply the info.

All the best,
Devlin
GRAIN (www.grain.org)

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