http://www.wsj.com/articles/china-seeks-to-develop-global-seed-power-1427049765
For two decades, foreign seed majors have beaten a path to China, lured by a market so big that it is projected to eclipse the U.S. as the world’s largest food consumer by 2018, according to the Association of Food Industries.
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