Tag Archives: Netherlands vegetable seed developer wins World Food Prize

DES MOINES: A seed developer from the Nether­lands credited with introducing high quality disease-resistant vegetable seeds to more than 60 countries including the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia was awarded the 2019 World Food Prize on Monday. Simon Groot, a sixth generation seedsman, began his search to create better vegetable seeds to help farmers in Southeast Asia in 1981 at age …

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