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posted on May 11, 2004
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Monsanto abandons worldwide GM wheat project
By: Paul Brown, environment correspondent
Published: Tuesday May 11, 2004
The GuardianMonsanto has abandoned plans to introduce GM wheat on to the world market despite spending seven years and hundreds of millions of dollars developing the crop.
The decision, announced yesterday, is a major fillip for the anti-GM lobby and follows pressure from US and Canadian farmers who feared the introduction of GM wheat would lead to the collapse of their billion-dollar markets in Europe and Japan.