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DuPont expanding Pioneer research facilities

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The article “DuPont expanding Pioneer research facilities” caught my attention because I feel that what Pioneer is doing is going to be good for the economy.  DuPont has decided to expand their research facility and will help farmers increase productivity.  Increasing productivity will help lower the prices of the products and help the consumers.  The goal of this expansion is to double the farm productivity by 2050.  By building this facility, the name Pioneer is going to become even better known.  A great thing about this expansion is that it is going to better the agricultural products.  The expansion will also help the economy because it is going to open up 400 jobs in the central Iowa area.  In the economy today, increasing the farming productivity and increasing jobs is very important.  This whole project is going to help turn the economy of Iowa around resulting from the increase in jobs and products that are going to be produced. 

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  • The efforts DuPont is going through to better productivity will give US farmers cutting edge technology on our agricultural future. These facilities will give many researchers jobs, which will be great for our current recession, but will have a negative impact if the new biotechnology will steeply increase the price of supply for farmers. However, since effective research generally takes an extensive amount of time, it looks like the new facility for DuPoint will lead agriculture to a brighter future. 

    hhatton2, 2 years ago | Flag
  • While this new research center will create jobs and will help achieve the increased productivity goal, it may come at a price...specifically to farmers.  The biotechnologies created will mean new and better seeds at a higher price to producers.  This will be fine for the large scale farmers to some extent, mainly those in the US, but it will be detrimental to small scale farmers who can barely make ends meet as it is.  These farmers are mainly those of third world countries where increased productivity is needed the most.  If these farmers do not have access to the new technologies created at prices they can afford then the increase in productivity may not happen.  Dupont needs to make efforts to make their products available to all farmers in order to get the response they want from this new facility.

    sechter2, 2 years ago | Flag

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