Monsanto's competitors, the Swiss Syngenta (nyse: SYT - news - people ) and the German Bayer (nyse: BAY - news - people ), also contract with farmers in India to produce seed.

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But it should fit cleanly with Bayer's agrochemicals division, creating the world's third-largest herbicides business and allowing it to compete more evenly with biotech crop and agrochemicals giants Monsanto (nyse: MON - news - people ) and Syngenta (nyse: SYT - news - people ).

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