Delta and Pine Land Company Announces Third Quarter Dividend

SCOTT, Miss., April 5  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Delta and Pine Land Company (NYSE:DLP) ("D&PL"), a leading commercial breeder, producer and marketer of cotton planting seed, today announced that its Board of Directors has declared a dividend of $0.15 per share.  The third quarter dividend will be paid on June 14, 2006 to shareholders of record on May 31, 2006.

About Delta and Pine Land Company

Delta and Pine Land Company is a commercial breeder, producer and marketer of cotton planting seed.  Headquartered in Scott, Mississippi, with multiple offices in eight states and facilities in several foreign countries, D&PL also breeds, produces and markets soybean planting seed. For more information, please refer to the Company's Web site at http://www.deltaandpine.com/. 

DATASOURCE: Delta and Pine Land Company



CONTACT:  Investors - Tom Jagodinski, Delta and Pine Land Company,

[phone]; Media - Jonathan Gasthalter, or Cassandra Bujarski, Citigate

Sard Verbinnen, [phone]



Web site:  http://www.deltaandpine.com/ 

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