SBS-Agro had offered to pay depositors in kind: suggestions included holidays and office furniture.
She claims that he used some of the funds to buy the yogurt factory that became Agro-Farma.
If the government is serious about development, some say, agro-industry is much more promising than small-scale farming.
For example, through agro-biodiversity, we have obtained the immense variety of crops and livestock on which people depend.
Before inking the research deal with Sangamo, Dow Agro scientists evaluated other, more widely studied genetic manipulation technologies.
The Banco do Nordeste, a public-sector regional development bank, has increased its lending to agro-industrial projects in the semi-arido.
SBS-Agro, another muscular Moscow bank, while Sevodnya is in Vladimir Gusinsky's Media-Most empire.
Since roads are generally dreadful, advances in communications, with mobile banking and telephonic agro-info, have been a huge boon.
His largest holdings are Walmart Stores Inc. ( WMT), Adecoagro SA ( AGRO) and General Electric Company ( GE).
Dow Agro biologists have already accurately inserted genetic material into specific locations in maize and rapeseed genomes using Sangamo's technology.
"DHS has a mandate from the President to find cost-effective means to meet our nation's bio-and-agro security needs, " he said.
But there is a new factor: the mostly state-tolerated rise of paramilitary forces, acting for big landowners, agro-businessmen and drug traffickers.
Brazil has followed more or less the opposite of the agro-pessimists' prescription.
He also served on the board of directors of the Monte Vista Production Credit Union and on the board of Agro Engineering, Inc.
Kansas State University, on the western edge of the corridor, is among five sites being considered for the National Bio and Agro-Defence Facility.
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Something which is already evident in the agriculture sector, where the farmers may be independent farmers but are relentlessly on the leash to agro-chem firms.
He is promoting agro-industrial co-ops, to increase rural employment and income.
It recently launched four agro-industrial businesses supplying staple products such as milk and maize flour, and its retail-food chain, Mercal, aims to cover 60% of the market.
Hamdi Ulukaya, who is new to the Forbes Billionaires list, is the founder, president and CEO of Chobani Inc, formerly Agro Farma, the maker of Chobani Greek yogurt.
Dow Agro will likely sign an exclusive commercial licensing agreement with Sangamo between now and October, paying it royalties on sales of products developed using zinc finger proteins.
Yungas's organic coffee and agro-forestry have enormous potential for growth.
Funding for the National Bio- and Agro-defense Facility, however, has slowed in recent years because of tight federal funding sources and ongoing reviews of the laboratory's size, scope and risk.
Furthermore, such construction often entailed the violent displacement of local agro-pastoral people from their land, so that the necessary infrastructure could be put in place to develop the oil fields.
The framework includes several agro-environmental modules and models.
Chenda Sophea says he is particularly encouraged by interested rumblings from German, French and U.S. agro--industrial companies -- a refreshing change from "classical investors" in the garment, logging, hotel, brewing and tobacco industries.
You can find the Water Pavilion at the Race Village in Brest, with daily presentations of the Agro Programme implemented under the auspices of UNESCO and of the Global Water Experiment.
To provide jobs and stop their children leaving the land, they want government support to develop agro-industrial projects, such as fish and fruit farming and market gardening, says Ilda de Souza, leader of a co-operative there.
The discovery that the infertile soils of the cerrado can be made productive are due solely to the initiative of the private sector American IRI Research Institute funded by the Rockefeller Brothers' Fund and Brazilian agro-industry.
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