The government remains the largest buyer, and about the only supplier of seeds, fertiliser and so on.
Monsanto claimed that the seeds could only be used for one growing season, meaning their offspring could not be saved and replanted without compensation.
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For the past few years the Ethiopian government, the WFP and others have been running hunger-relief programmes which give out not only food aid but seeds and help to turn wasteland into productive acres.
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Kansas became just the second No. 12 seed to advance to the second weekend of the NCAA tournament, joining San Francisco in 1996 as the only No. 12 seeds to follow up a win in the opening round with another in the second.
Since 108 teams started the tournament with a top seed, only 42% of top seeds made it to the final four.
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This year, mot only did all four top seeds reach the Final Four, they all played No. 2 seeds in the Elite Eight.
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Only three double-digit seeds have made the Elite Eight since 2004: George Mason (11) in 2006, Davidson (10) in 2008 and Virginia Commonwealth (11) last year.
Only six of the 16 seeds remained heading into this third round after a series of shocks including defeats for British pair Tim Henman and Greg Rusedski.
But since that disappointing performance, Syracuse (28-9) has gone on a run, winning five of its last six games to reach the Big East tournament final and join Indiana (29-6), No. 2 Miami and No. 3 Marquette to form the only group of 1-4 seeds left in any NCAA region this year.
They modified the plants ONLY to force the farmer to buy seeds from them.
Prestwich says French tarragon, which is the type largely imported to and grown in the UK, is a slow-growing plant, which can only be grown from cuttings, not seeds.
Only 30% of the No. 1 seeds over that same span have even advanced to the Sweet 16.
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Only seven teams outside of the top four seeds have ever made it to the Final Four since the NCAA tournament started in 1982.
Of the seven No. 1-seeds who swept No. 8-seeds over the previous decade, only the 2008 Lakers reached the NBA Finals, before falling to Boston.
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In 1951, IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad branched out beyond the basic business of mail-order Christmas tree decorations, ballpoint pens and bird seeds and added a catalog-only furniture business.
The high-yield seeds of the Green Revolution were not only developed but often marketed by state-financed agricultural institutions.
And yet, in a game where imitation is as ubiquitous as sunflower seeds in the dugout, Dickey remains the only knuckleball pitcher in baseball.
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By creating an environment that promotes seeing, sowing, and growing seeds of great potential, Google sustains not only its perpetual harvest but also its good fortune of being king of search engines.
Because each new crop of soybeans inherits the patented genetic innovation built into the original seeds, growers who wish to use these seeds agree to buy new seeds and sign a licensing agreement to use them only once.
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With Roundup-ready soybeans, for example, a grower only needs to apply Roundup herbicide during planting, while traditional soybean seeds require application during planting and again while the crop is growing in order to achieve the same level of weed control.
But his only visitors were the birds, and he scattered handfuls of rice and seeds on his lawn and on those of his former neighbors.
But there are 347 teams playing Division-I hoops, and only 68 qualify for March Madness meaning even the No. 16 seeds lorded over their own conferences.
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Had seeds held serve across the board, the Pac-12 would have only earned 7 units.
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Where possible, only brand-new equipment is used in order to mitigate the chance it picked up seeds or spores.
More importantly, of course, the result sealed a top-two seeding, with only a Toulouse victory away to Wasps on Sunday capable of displacing Saints as number one seeds.
Historically, Cretans have eaten only what their land produced: lots of fruit, vegetables, whole grains and pulses the dried seeds of legumes such as lentils, beans and peas.
The only people who really seem to benefit are the farmers who grow the crops and seed companies who provide the seeds, while there are environmental risks that affect us all.
But there are seeds, too, in the very nature of things: a promise, after all, is only a promise, even when it is supported by divine revelation, and the chances against its fulfillment may be put into a depressing mathematical formula.
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"In the next four or five years, I think we'll increase not only the fruits per jatropha tree, but we'll also increase the amount of oil in each of those seeds, " Beckford said.
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