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Origin Agritech Limited Restructures Northeast Seed Distribution

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  Published in House and Home on Wednesday, September 14th 2011 at 3:22 GMT by Market Wire
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BEIJING--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Origin Agritech Limited (NASDAQ: SEED) (aOrigina or the aCompanya), a technology-focused supplier of crop seeds and agricultural products in China, today announced it has restructured the Jilin Changrong subsidiary unit to reorganize Company operations in the Northeast seed corn market. As a result, the Jilin Changrong subsidiary will withdraw its seed registration and fold current operations into Origina™s existing Northeast distribution and Jinong Hi-tech Company. Origin will continue to hold 23% of Jinong Hi-tech. Originally, Jilin Changrong was formed as a collaborative effort between Origin and Jinong Hi-tech. Prior to the withdrawal, Origin Agritech directly held 53.95% of Jilin Changrong.

Commenting on the restructuring, Dr. Gengchen Han, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Origin, said, aWe are pleased to have realized operational efficiencies from our restructuring in the Northeast. This current restructure, coupled with our new production unit in Xinjiang, will allow Origin to allocate resources to areas where we can achieve stronger returns for the long term. Leveraging on our enhanced technological and distribution platform, we will continue to innovate to better address Chinese farmersa™ demand for premium agricultural product solutions.a

About Origin

Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Beijing, Origin Agritech Limited (NASDAQ GS: SEED) is Chinaa™s leading, vertically integrated agricultural biotechnology company specializing in research, development and production to supply food to the growing populations of China. Origin develops, grows, processes, and markets high-quality, hybrid crop seeds to farmers throughout China and parts of Southeast Asia via a network of approximately 3,800 first-level distributors and 65,000 second-level distributors and retailers, and it possesses a pipeline of genetically modified seed products including glyphosate resistant corn and Bt Corn. The first genetically modified corn seed product for China, Phytase Corn, was approved in November 2009 for which Origin possesses exclusive rights. For further information, please log on to [ www.originagritech.com ].

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