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MONSANTO INDIA LIMITED
Regd.Office: Ahura Centre, 5th Floor, 96, Mahakali Caves Road, Andheri (East), Mumbai – 400 093.
UNAUDITED FINANCIAL RESULTS FOR THE QUARTER  ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2006
    (R    U   P    E   E   S       I N        L   A    C   S)
SR. NO. PARTICULARS QUARTER ENDED ON 31.12.2006
(UNAUDITED)
QUARTER ENDED ON 31.12.2005
(UNAUDITED)
NINE MONTHS ENDED ON 31.12.2006
(UNAUDITED)
NINE MONTHS ENDED ON 31.12.2005
(UNAUDITED)
YEAR ENDED 31.3.2006
(AUDITED)
     
1 Sales (Net of Excise Duty) 7072 8696 29097 30158 33084
2 Other Income 357 332 1141 1099 1460
3 Profit on Divestiture of Leader Business 1485 0 1485 0 0
        TOTAL INCOME 8914 9028 31723 31257 34544
4 Total Expenditure          
  a)  Materials and Inputs:          
    -  Decrease/(Increase) in stock in trade 3063 939 3930 3330 (735)
    -  Consumption of Materials    789 2724 8864 8427 13333
    -  Purchase of Finished Goods 72 210 701 2680 3160
  b)  Staff Cost 627 650 1837 1635 2244
  c) Other Expenditure 2204 1959 7626 6269 8162
        TOTAL EXPENDITURE 6755 6482 22958 22341 26164
5 Interest  6 6 20 18 22
6 Depreciation  200 194 595 582 782
7 Profit Before Tax  (1+2+3-4-5-6) 1953 2346 8150 8316 7576
8 Provision for Taxation:           
        -  Current Tax 453 251 893 751 400
        -  Deferred Tax  21 (14) (74) (29) (39)
       -   Fringe Benefit Tax 50 21 104 69 115
      -   Wealth Tax 0 0 2 0 5
  Excess provision of earlier years 0 0 0 0 (182)
9 Net Profit after tax (7-8) 1429 2088 7225 7525 7277
10 Paid-up Equity Share Capital
(face value of Rs.10/- per share)
863 863 863 863 863
11 Free Reserves (excluding   - - - - 31839
      revaluation reserves)
12 Basic Earning per share (EPS) – Rs. 16.56 24.20 83.72 87.20 84.32
12 Aggregate of Non Promoters           
      Shareholding:          
-        Number of Shares 2404152 2404152 2404152 2404152 2404152
-          Percentage of Shareholdings 27.85 27.85 27.85 27.85 27.85
Notes:
1 The Company's performance is affected having regard to the mix of products sold in respective quarters.
2 The Company has one primary business segment  namely "Agriculture Inputs".
3 Information on Investor complaints for the quarter (Nos.) Opening Balance:0,  New: 8, Disposals: 8  and Closing Balance: 0.
4 The financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2006 have been reviewed by the Audit Committee
and approved by the Board of Directors at their meeting held on January 29, 2007, and have been subjected to a 
Limited Review by the Statutory Auditors of the Company.
5 Profit on Divestiture of Leader Business represents profit on sale by the Company of its herbicide business
under the trade mark of "Leader".
6 Previous period's/year's figures have been re-grouped wherever necessary to correspond
with the current period's/year's figures.
For MONSANTO INDIA LIMITED 
SEKHAR NATARAJAN
Mumbai: 29th January, 2007 CHAIRMAN