By ARTEMIO A. DUMLAO Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY (June 1, 2011) — The country’s rice sufficiency is reportedly in danger with the Philippine government’s decision to withdraw subsidy for hybrid rice. The agriculture department’s exclusion of hybrid rice technology from its priorities spells doom to the country’s bid to become self-sufficient in rice, said Dr. Noel…
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Noynoy’s plan to push hybrid rice to offset massive landgrabbing, displacement of farmers and land-use conversion
After planning to add 2 more years to basic education, incoming president Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III made another anti-people and anti-peasant plan which is to push the use hybrid rice supposed to boost production in the country. Aquino claimed that the use hybrid rice would compensate for his plan to stop rice importations. Farmers group…