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[Title] => Farmers’ group hails BOC seizure of smuggled rice
[Summary] => Agriculture stakeholders lauded yesterday the recent seizure of 403 container vans of smuggled rice in Davao as they called on the government to remain vigilant against the illegal entry of imported grains into the country.
[DatePublished] => 2013-10-27 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Perseus Echeminada
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[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
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[AuthorID] => 1723283
[AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez
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[Title] => Power consumers brace for rate hike in July
[Summary] => Some 60 million electric power consumers in the country will begin to absorb an estimated 35 percent increase in their monthly bill this coming July following two successive generation rate hikes by the National Power Corp. (Napocor) and the implementation of the expanded value added tax law.
[DatePublished] => 2005-06-28 00:00:00
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[Title] => Farmers, scientists urge gov’t to resist anti-GMO lobby
[Summary] => Leading Filipino scientists and farmer organizations recently called on the government "to resist a new wave of pressure from anti-GMO lobbyists who are on an apparent campaign to derail the country’s bid for food sufficiency".
The leaders said the recent botched attempt by foreign anti-GMO lobbyists to link ailments among local tribesmen to genetically-modified corn crops may be a sign that the government policy on biotechnology "may not have been beneficial to some foreign business interests."
[DatePublished] => 2004-04-04 00:00:00
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[Title] => Farmers, RP scientists question GMO ‘scare campaign’
[Summary] => The country’s biggest farmer organizations recently warned against an "apparent organized campaign to discredit the government’s food security policy" following the recent rash of alleged anti-genetically modified organism (GMO) "propaganda".
[DatePublished] => 2004-03-14 00:00:00
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[Title] => Consumer group cites court order on gin issue
[Summary] => A consumer organization lauded a recent decision by the Mandaluyong City Regional Trial Court to grant the motion by Ginebra San Miguel, Inc. (GSMI) for a temporary restraining order stopping Tanduay Distillers, Inc. from further manufacturing and selling its ‘Kapitan’ gin product.
The Mandaluyong RTC issued the TRO last week against Tanduay saying evidence was established that the close similarity between Kapitan gin and market leader Ginebra San Miguel "may give rise to confusion of goods."
[DatePublished] => 2003-09-29 00:00:00
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[Title] => Bt corn farmers fear crop sabotage
[Summary] => Several large farmers’ organizations which said they are planting the high-yielding chemical-free Bt corn variety recently asked Agriculture Secretary Cito Lorenzo to protect them from groups that have threatened to destroy their crops.
Farmer-leader Edwin Paraluman, chairman of the Agricultural and Fisheries Council of General Santos City and the Provincial Farmers Action Council of South Cotabato, said corn farmers are concerned over threats aired by various non-governmental organizations that the said groups will uproot Bt corn crops planted in their farms.
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-29 00:00:00
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[Title] => It’s Bt corn harvest time
[Summary] => LOS BAÑOS, Laguna – It’s Bt corn harvest season in the countryside.
The first commercial genetically modified (GM) corn have been harvested in Isabela.
And the results were remarkable, as reflected by figures furnished The STAR by the Los Baños-based SEARCA Biotechnology Information Center (BIC).
For instance, Jose Denna, a farmer from Ilagan, harvested 9.5 tons per hectare from the Yieldgard corn (DK 818YG)-Bt corn MON810 of Monsanto, which is significantly higher than his usual yield of only six tons/ha.
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-01 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
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[AuthorID] => 1723283
[AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez
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[Title] => Sobriety and the Bt corn issue
[Summary] => Now that the hunger strikers have finally called off their protest action against Bt corn, the country can now resume a truly sober and scientific discussion of the issue. As we have said time and again in this column, biotechnology, genetically modified food products and Bt corn are topics that are best discussed outside the realm of politics. Politics is often propelled by business interests; science is driven by the quest for answers to problems. And in the search for answers, the scientific brain must work without pressure from fear and emotional manipulation.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-28 00:00:00
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[Title] => Much ado about Bt corn
[Summary] => Several large farmers‚ groups recently asked the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) not to pressure the government to stop them from planting a high-yielding chemical-free corn variety so they can enjoy "the freedom of choice in the selection of seeds and in the management of our farms".
The farmers made the call in the wake of a move by the CBCP to squeeze the Arroyo government into banning the biotechnology-processed corn variety known in the market as Bt corn.
[DatePublished] => 2003-05-25 00:00:00
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September 29, 2003 - 12:00am
