The doors are open to an examination of the more than 200 companies in which the Latin American Agribusiness Corporation has a financial stake; the same can be said of more than 100 agro-industrial ventures of the Commonwealth Development Corporation. Kenya Seed Company Limited was formed in 1956, as a private company, by a group of farmers, in response to demand for seed of improved grass and legume varieties developed by the Grasslands Research Station at Kitale. Alimentos Congelados, S.A. (ALCOSA) contracts production with about 2,400 small-scale farmers in central Guatemala, and despite some historical problems in company/farmer relationships, management estimates that many thousands of additional farmers are willing and able to contract if ALCOSA could handle the produce. All of the tobacco processed by the company is grown under contract to farmers who own land or to tenants or subtenants on eight large tracts, either owned or leased by the manufacturer.