date:Jan 13, 2014
a favorable year-round climate.
Syngenta leases 3,000 acres on Kauai, DuPont Pioneer leases about 5,000 acres and Agrigenetics leases 3,500 acres for two farms on Kauai, according to the lawsuit the companies filed.
The companies grow a mix of biotech seed crops, including corn, soybeans, canola and rice. The temperate climate of Kauai gives the companies the invaluable opportunity to triple or quadruple the pace of development of GM crops, and is crucial to the companies' success, the lawsuit