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AGROW MAGAZINE • ISSUE 9 •  
December 2007
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Issue 19 – December 2007
Editor 
Nessa Keogh
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Contributing Editor 
The Agrow Awards
Jon Evans
salute the best jon.evans@absw.org.uk
BASF - ag biotech
and the future
Designer 
Agrow’s Top 20 revealed Lee Spencer
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Phil Jarvis
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Commercial Director 
Tim Budgen
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Edition’ reveals that little has changed for
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Simon Varcoe looks at why BASF is investing
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is investing €400 million in the expansion of
Tokyo 181-0012, Japan.
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plant biotechnology in the period 2006-2008.
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