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[Title] => USM experts develop 6 new HYV corn varieties
[Summary] => Researchers from the University of Southern Mindanao have developed six new high yielding white corn varieties resistant to stalk rot and ear rot diseases.
[DatePublished] => 2010-01-10 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Ghio Ong
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[Title] => Sustainable agriculture for poor farmers pushed
[Summary] => There are signs that a quiet revolution in the world food systems is starting to occur. Some sustainable highlights: Brazilian farmers – numbering 223,000 using green manure and cover crops of legumes and livestock integration have doubled yields of maize and wheat to four to five tons per hectare; Guatemalan and Honduran farmers – numbering 45,000– have used regenerative technologies to triple maize yields to some 2-1.5 tons/ha and diversity their upland farms. This has encouraged re-emigration back from the cities.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-07 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1096447
[AuthorName] => Antonio M. Claparols
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[Title] => Greenpeace raises alarm on RP market food products
[Summary] => Food products sold in local markets and corn being grown in farms in the country may possibly be contaminated, according to the admission of a Swiss biotechnology company that mistakenly sold hundreds of tons of the wrong genetically engineered (GE) maize to the United States over the past four years.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-14 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Katherine Adraneda
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[Title] => Questions about GM corn raised
[Summary] => Austria is raising some concerns regarding the commercial cultivation of generically modified maize Mon 810. In a note to the Council of the European Union, Austria stated that Mon810 should not be planted yet in the light of prevalent scientific uncertainties about possible effects of the GM maize, as well as, the absence of a meticulous plan to monitor these effects.
[DatePublished] => 2005-03-20 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Antonio M. Claparols
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[Title] => Challenges in maize, wheat research
[Summary] => Maize and wheat are two of the world’s three most important staple foods and are essential to food security and socio-economic development, according to Dr. Masa Iwanaga, recently appointed director-general of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) based in Mexico.
In Asia alone, demand for maize is growing faster than the demand for any other cereals, including rice, and demand for wheat is rising rapidly as well, Dr. Iwanaga said.
[DatePublished] => 2002-10-27 00:00:00
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By
Ghio Ong | January 10, 2010 - 12:00am
October 27, 2002 - 12:00am
