By ML MARIGZA NORTHERN DISPATCH Posted by Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY — Farmers groups have protested the field testing of genetically modified (GM) eggplants in the Philippines. Known as the Philippine Fruit and Shoot Borer (FSB)-resistant eggplants (Bt brinjal) or...
If former President Marcos had his “Green Revolution” and “miracle rice” program, the Arroyo administration has its agricultural modernization program and Bt corn. But the effects on the peasantry are the same dependence on creditors, indebtedness, soil...
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