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Women select the best seeds every year and - over time - the rice molds itself to the farm's own ecosystem. Women ... cross the commercial variety with other rice strains to breed their own locally-adapted seeds. The Terminator could put an end to all this and increase crop uniformity and vulnerability. It poses a threat to the culture of seed sharing and exchange that is led primarily by women farmers."
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Heirloom vegetable seeds are seeds that are handed from one generation to the next - sometimes for more than hundred years. If you grow heirloom vegetables in your garden, you can harveste your own seeds. Many heirloom gardeners feel that saving their own seed gives them more connection to the entire process of growth and regeneration.
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"Our strategic evolution has established Monsanto as the leading innovator in agricultural seeds and technology," says Crews. "The financial discipline we have exercised has ... allowed us to establish a solid foundation which is poised for growth in the years ahead."
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