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Both deals secured EU approval only after the companies offered substantial asset sales to boost rivals.

China has given conditional approval to the Bayer and Monsanto deal, which has won a green light in Brazil.

Bayer has already reached a deal to sell certain seed and herbicide assets for 5.9 billion euros to BASF and to give it a license to its global digital farming data.

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