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Seed savers targeted
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?ID=10731
Under the new rules, local growers are forced instead to purchase annual licenses from corporations and will receive new seed every year. Many GM wheat strains are engineered to become barren in the next generation, to prevent farmers from reusing the seed. Even farmers who refuse to plant modified crops may be affected, as airborne cross-pollination from GM fields to non-GM fields is not unusual; however, even if cross-breeding is completely unintentional, the company owning the patent on certain genetic traits can claim the entire next generation as its own property. In several districts of Iraq, soldiers of the US Army’s 256th Brigade Combat Team (BCT) have been distributing free, genetically modified (GM) wheat seed to farmers since December last year, as part of “Operation Amber Waves”, an effort by the Agricultural Reconstruction and Development Program for Iraq (ARDI) to introduce “high-quality” seeds to the occupied country. According to US military reports, farmers received free wheat, barley, and fertilizer, as well as a “United Farmers of Iraq” T-shirt, as part of “Operation Amber Waves”.
''"Iraq's wheat seed has been degraded tremendously because the farmers harvest their grain and then use the same wheat to replant," Acree said. "What they have right now is fit for livestock. We’re trying to bring that wheat grade back up to where it’s good for human consumption. Thus they can get a better price on the market and can start selling it internationally. This will help the economy tremendously." So far, the operation has brought in 434 tons of very high grade wheat seed.''
http://www.iraqprocurement.com/docs/new618.htm
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''“Handing out free seed and shirts is just the first step,” said St. Petersburg, Fla. native Capt. William Powers, the battalion’s civil affairs officer. “We are currently in the process of building a farmer’s co-op facility that will have a large meeting room, a soil and water laboratory and a large warehouse to store equipment and supplies.”''
http://www.hood.army.mil/1stcavdiv/news/News%20archives/october%2004/amber%20waves.htm