
Dutch developer wins World Food Prize for disease-resistant vegetable seeds
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- Category: Tech & Science
- Published Tuesday, June 11, 2019
- CBC News

A seed developer from the Netherlands credited with introducing high quality disease-resistant vegetable seeds to more than 60 countries including the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia was awarded the 2019 World Food Prize on Monday.
Simon Groot, a sixth generation seedsman, began his search to create better vegetable seeds to help farmers in Southeast Asia in 1981 at the age of 47 after his family's company was taken over by a larger corporation.