Emmi Lappalainen's blog

Soybean cultivation covers 57 % of all agricultural area in Argentina. Nearly 100 % of all cultivated soya in Argentina is transgenic soya and its planting requires glyphosate herbicide patented by Monsanto Company, which dominates around 90 % of the global market for genetically modified seeds. It has been proven that Glyphosate causes environmental damage, and in recent years the situation has become worse when the transgenic plants have started to become increasingly resistant to glyphosate and thus, it is being replaced by other even more toxic herbicides such as dicamba.