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Plant Health Care - New crop technology dazzles investors

May 2008

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Just as the world is close to peak oil some analysts now believe there is a likelihood of a serious shortage in arable foods, with prices of wheat, maize and soya all registering dot com style gains following several poor harvests and surging demand from wealthier Asian countries and the biofuels industry. But one potential beneficiary in all this doom and gloom is AIM-listed Plant Health Care (PHC) (FT sector: AIM, Chemicals), which specialises in producing natural based products, which increase a crop plant's vitality and therefore enhances yields. It has already signed licence deals with two heavy hitters from the lucrative world of US agri-business and the prospect of having its technology rolled out across large swathes of the Ameri ...

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