A seed producer has paid a $280,000 fine to the state of Arkansas for failing to report that the Chinese regime owns a stake in the company, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin said on Thursday. Syngenta Seeds LLC, a Switzerland-headquartered producer of genetically modified crop seeds, owns about 160 acres of farmland in Arkansas’ Craighead County through a subsidiary, Northrup King Seed Co., according to the attorney general’s office. In 2015, agrochemical giant Monsanto made a bid to purchase Syngenta, but that bid fell through. The company was then approached by state-owned China National Chemical Corporation, also known as ChemChina, and a purchase was finalized in 2017. Five years later, the U.S. Department of Defense added ChemChina to its list of “Chinese military companies” operating in the United States....Read more https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/seed-producer-pays-280000-fine-to-arkansas-over-failure-to-report-chinese-regime-ownership-5527190