Monsanto Set to Fight Argentina Over Royalties Owed By FarmersBy Brandon Turbeville Shortly after the government of President Mauricio Macri passed a resolution officially giving control of the analysis of seeds, Monsanto is now set to challenge the Argentine governments decision. While the Argentine government has agreed to collect monies owed by small farmers in royalties on genetically modified soybean seeds, the government requested additional time to do so. Even this, however, was unacceptable to Monsanto as the corporation rejected the governments request according to two unnamed Monsanto staff members cited by Bloomberg News. As a result, Ricardo Buryaile, the Agricultural Minister and members of his staff have met with representatives of Monsanto and Chief Operation Officer Brett Begemann to request a waiver on the owed royalties. Monsanto rejected that waiver request but did agree to slash the royalties being demanded from fifteen dollars per hectare to nine dollars per hectare for growers who use Monsanto technology but who do not actually purchase the seeds directly from Monsanto itself. Both Monsanto and the government did agree that large soybean producers must pay royalties. Interestingly enough, Monsantos stock rose three percent on the heels of this announcement. The stock had declined seven percent this year. The issue surrounds the fact that Monsanto has been demanding that exporters inspect cargo to determine whether or not farmers had paid the requisite royalties to produce the companys genetically modified soybeans. Monsanto is claiming that Argentine farmers have benefited immensely from the Intacta technology and is demanding that everyone pay to use it. For about a year, Monsanto has been pressuring shipping companies and demanding that the companies notify it when crops produced with Intacta technology are scheduled to be exported without corresponding documentation proving that royalties had been paid to Monsanto. The Intacta soybeans in question are genetically engineered to have a gene that protects them against worms that target the plant. Monsanto is demanding royalties for grains produced even by second generation seeds. Farmers, however, argue that Argentinian law does not require that they pay for second generation production and are asking the government to stop private companies from acting as food inspectors. The government decision also affects the Bolsatech that Monsanto was setting up as an alternative system of payment with green exchanges. The Argentine Rural Society (SRA) an organization that represents medium and large scale producers said the inspections were unwarranted. These methods were not only not authorized, but furthermore, we saw them as an abusive power for a company to be acting like the police, SRA president Luis Etchevehere said. In an official bulletin that was issued on Thursday, April 14th, Argentinas Agricultural Ministry stated that any inspection needs prior government authorization. An official resolution was passed by the government on April 15th. Image Credit This article (Monsanto Set to Fight Argentina Over Royalties Owed By Farmers) can be republished under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Brandon Turbeville and Natural Blaze.com. Brandon Turbeville article archive here is an author out of Florence, South Carolina. He is the author of six books, Codex Alimentarius The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies,Five Sense SolutionsandDispatches From a Dissident, volume 1 and volume 2, The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria, andThe Difference it Makes: 36 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Should Never Be President. Turbeville has published over 600 articles dealing on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties. Brandon Turbevilles podcast Truth on The Tracks can be found every Monday night 9 pm EST at UCYTV. He is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact activistpost (at) gmail.com. Top quality Grade A medical marijuana strains available for sale . Place your order directly from our website and have it ship the same day . Visit http://www.saintmaryhouse . com or contact us at 512 640 9206 Just so you know If you comment on this article your name will be recorded in the Monsanto Book of No-nos. You most likely will be targeted for DNA zapping and implantation of compliant lounge-lizard or couch-potato genes. No worries though. These substitute genes have been spoken about to the FDA and they have been deemed to be similar in many respects to edible items as reported by Monsanto in their five minute studies on the possible negative results from ingestion of these food like cardboard cut-outs. From laboratory to table in five minutes. No testing required. Trust me! Kudos to the protesters. the problem i see with monsanto seeds is that they spread over non monsanto seed so putting them somewhere will inevitably make them take over everything else, and there are other that you have to buy constantly from them, as i believe happened in india, wich i have to say will be like tryin to make you payed for rain water or the sun.. 