SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) — Monsanto will run field tests with its genetically modified soybean variety Intacta2 Xtend in Brazil in 2019-20, looking to launch the variety commercially the following year.
The variety has been engineered to resist some herbicides, including those containing dicamba.
The use of dicamba-based products caused controversy in the United States last year with accusations that the product drifted and damaged neighbouring crops.
Brazilian regulators approved a request from Monsanto in late 2016 to sell the dicamba-resistant variety, but the company had declined to release plans to market the product in the country until now.
