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Farms of Texas Co. (at the time a large corporate farm) became part of the partnership to help develop better production practices and further research. Farms of Texas Co. was re-formed as RiceTec Inc. in 1990 and formed a partnership with the
Chinese National Hybrid Rice Research Center in 1993 to provide RiceTec with exclusive access to Chinese
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rice. Basmati rice has historically been grown in India for many centuries, however neither country had ever patented the particular variety of rice. The claiming of the patent by RiceTec angered many farmers, officials, and NGOs in the region because of this act of theft of intellectual property and
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in 1997, but was officially challenged by the Indian government in 2000 and most patent claims were overturned in the US in 2002. Despite this, RiceTec continues to market their "Texmati" brand of rice as "long grain
American Basmati", although no patents or trademarks on the title "Basmati" are
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National Seed Corporation and Ring Around Seed Corporation. These early attempts at growing hybrid rice were met with limited success due to problems in production and grain characteristics. In 1986
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