DuPont sales fall 5.5 percent in first-quarter

Net income attributable to the company rose to $ 1.23 billion, or $1.39 per share, in the first quarter, from $1.03 billion, or $1.13 per share, a year earlier.

Net sales fell to $7.41 billion from $7.84 billion.

DuPont and Dow Chemical Co agreed to merge in an all-stock deal in December in a first step toward breaking up into three separate businesses focused on agriculture, material science and specialty products.

(Reporting by Subrat Pantnaik and Amrutha Gayathri in Bengaluru; Editing by Leslie Adler)

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