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Northrup-King Seed Company was founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1896, and was based there until it was acquired and moved to Golden Valley, Minnesota in 1986. It is now a division of Syngenta . Company history
Syngenta Global AG is a global agricultural technology company headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. [1] It primarily covers crop protection and seeds for farmers. Syngenta is part of the Syngenta Group, entirely owned by Sinochem, a Chinese state-owned enterprise.
The Institute of Plant Breeding (IPB) is a research institute of the University of the Philippines Los Baños. It is the national biotechnology research center and repository for all crops other than rice , which is handled by the Philippine Rice Research Institute .
Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) is a government corporate entity attached to the Department of Agriculture created through Executive Order 1061 on November 5, 1985 (as amended) to help develop high-yielding and cost-reducing technologies for farmers.
Xanthostemon verdugonianus is known to be the hardest Philippine hardwood species. Cutting a 70-cm thick tree with axes normally requires three hours, but cutting a Mangkono tree with the same diameter usually takes two to four days.
Maharashtra Hybrid Seeds Co. (Mahyco) is an agricultural company based in India and a major producer of seeds. As of 2015, the company also operates in Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines and Bangladesh, with plans for expansion into Africa. [1] The company produces seeds for cotton, wheat, rice, sorghum, pearl millet, maize oilseeds and vegetables ...
Artocarpus camansi fruits in Trinidad and Tobago Artocarpus camansi fruit. The morphology of the breadnut is a tree up to 35 metres (115 ft) tall with leaves 40–60 centimetres (16–24 in) long and 25–45 cm (10– 17 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) wide and are pinnately lobed. [2]
The founder of the company, Mr Rijk Zwaan, came from a family of seed growers and seed traders living in the Dutch town of Enkhuizen, which evolved into a centre for the seed production industry in the late nineteenth century. In 1924 Zwaan opened a shop selling seeds on the street called Zwaanshals in Rotterdam. In order to select plants ...