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Monsanto Fund: Dateline Argentina Featured Article

Generating Entrepreneurial Spirit

Junior Achievement Argentina and Monsanto have been working together since 1998 to generate an entrepreneurial spirit in children and youth that allows them to achieve their goals within a framework of responsibility and freedom.

In 2006, this relationship grew when Monsanto decided to work with Junior Achievement Argentina to develop a new program focused on rural enterprises. The result was the creation of Our Field (Nuestro Campo in Spanish), a six-session program designed for students aged 13 to 15.

In the Our Field program, students learn the importance of education for their future and the role of … Full Article »

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Originally published
February 20, 2013 by Monsantoco

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On Breeding Wheat Featured Article

Bharath K. Reddy is a recipient of a Monsanto Beachell-Borlaug International Scholarship. Last week, the Times of India posted an article in which he describes the scholarship program and what his particular research program is about.

“Wheat is one of the major staple food crops in many parts of the world with constant biotic and abiotic stresses,” he says. “Incidence of crop and pest diseases along with heat and drought result in significant reduction in grain yields. Scientists across the world are relentlessly trying to improve wheat cultivars with higher yields and better resistance a broad range of genetic … Full Article »

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Originally published
January 7, 2013 by Monsantoco