Passage: Japan's Tomen Corp. said Thursday it had bought a 19 percent stake in Koppert Biological Systems BV, a Dutch company that breeds benign insects to protect vegetables against insect pests. The Japanese trading house has been a sales agent in Japan for the world's biggest breeder of benign insects since 1992 and sold for two years a type of bee that kills insects that thrive on tomatoes and strawberries.
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