| Aventis CropScience is
part of the agricultural business area of Aventis,
a world leader in life sciences. Aventis integrates crop protection,
plant breeding, biotechnology and agronomic information to provide
total crop solutions to farmers. With 1998 pro-forma sales of more
than 4.09 billion euros ($6,l billion Canadian) Aventis CropScience
devotes over 10% of its turnover to the research and development of
new chemicals, biotechnology and plant varieties. It employs about
16,000 people in more than 120 countries worldwide. |
