State officials are forcing a crop input manufacturer to sell farmland located within their borders.
“I’m announcing that Syngenta, a Chinese state-owned agrichemical company, must give up its land holdings in Arkansas,” Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a press conference.
Syngenta’s parent company, ChemChina, which acquired Syngenta in 2017, appears on a Department of Defense’s list of Chinese military companies operating in the U.S.
Therefore, its operations in Arkansas cannot be allowed, to ensure the safety of American agriculture, Gov. Sanders said.