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"Environment and development groups are appealing against the granting to the US Government and a multi-national company of a patent on a tree. The patent was granted to the US Department of Agriculture and the W R Grace corporation. It allows them to make a fungicide derived from the neem tree, which is indigenous to India, Pakistan and Bangladesh....Critics say the neem has been used for centuries in south Asia, and claim the case typifies the way the patent system is being misused to transfer biological wealth from the poor world."
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_738000/738002.stm
Reference by Eric Eldred.
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please give us some information how can supplies neem tree one meter tall around 100000 tree one gallon tall please give us some information thanks
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