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                    [Title] => New Biotech Books launched
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Two books and a monograph on biotechnology were launched recently by the Los Baños-based...

[DatePublished] => 2014-03-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1255808 [Title] => Farmers hope for approval of Bt eggplant cultivation [Summary] =>

Despite the series of calamities that hit the Philippines recently, specifically the Visayas region, Filipino farmers remain hopeful of the Bt  (Bacillus thuringiensis) eggplant cultivation, which will spare farmers and consumers from harmful chemical sprays even as Bangladesh already approved Bt brinjal’s commercial release in its market.

[DatePublished] => 2013-11-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1298072 [AuthorName] => Ehda Dagooc [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business [SectionUrl] => cebu-business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 930283 [Title] => Filipino farmer-leader supports?wider biotech corn propagation [Summary] =>

The Philippines continues to be a leading player in the full commercialization of biotech food crops, beating such giants as China and India, both of which are currently promoting the cultivation of Bacillius thuringiensis (Bt) cotton.

[DatePublished] => 2013-04-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 778536 [Title] => DA praised for research on biotech crops [Summary] =>

The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) lauds the Department of Agriculture (DA) for intensifying research on biotech crops.

[DatePublished] => 2012-02-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 665237 [Title] => Pangasinan farmers await release of Bt eggplant [Summary] =>

Farmers in this eggplant-producing province are eagerly awaiting the release of a genetically modified (GM) Bt-talong now the object of years of studies being done by government researchers.

[DatePublished] => 2011-03-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 658665 [Title] => Anti-GMO activists destroy Bt eggplants [Summary] =>

Anti-genetically modified (GM) crops activists have destroyed experimental GM eggplants being studied by the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) here.

[DatePublished] => 2011-02-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 627377 [Title] => Farmers back field trials for GM eggplant [Summary] =>

Farmer-leaders from across the country have expressed strong support for the multilocation trials of genetically modified (GM) eggplants now being conducted by government researchers.

[DatePublished] => 2010-11-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/7991/agri1thumbd.jpg ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 44434 [Title] => RP a major recipient of biotech funds from USAID [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2008-02-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097285 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 3873 [Title] => GM papaya, eggplant soon to be commercialized in RP [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2007-06-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 374325 [Title] => Coming soon: Bt eggplant [Summary] => It’s but a matter of time before genetically modified (GM) or Bt eggplant will become a part of the country’s vegetable landscape.

Developed in India, the first GM eggplant variety was introduced in the Philippines two years ago.

Tested under "contained" conditions in the greenhouses of the University of the Philippines Los Baños-Institute of Plant Breeding (UPLB-IPB), the Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) crop is programmed to "graduate" to a "confined" (still limited but outside the greenhouse) environment in early 2007. [DatePublished] => 2006-12-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) ) )
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