14/10/2015 (Agence Europe) - Syngenta withdraws applications for cultivation authorisation for two maizes. On Monday 12 October, the European Commission announced that agrochemical company Syngenta had withdrawn applications for authorisation to cultivate two out of four of its genetically modified (GM) maizes. Syngenta's application withdrawal is the result of widespread rejection of GM crop cultivation by two thirds of EU governments - which had used their opt-outs to ban GMO cultivation...