Who owns GM crops?
While there are literally hundreds, if not thousands of corporations, universities and governments researching and developing genetically modified organisms, only a small handful of corporations control the vast majority of commercial applications. The entire global GM crop market is controlled by Monsanto (80%), Aventis (7%), Syngenta (5%), BASF (5%) and DuPont (3%). Subsequently, these corporations subsequently also control a significant percentage of the global seed, agrochemical and in part, pharmaceutical markets.
