BIOTECH RICE? THANKS, BUT NO THANKS
A recent study by the Philippine Rice Research Institute and the International Rice Research Institute boldly claims that Filipinos are now ready to eat biotech rice. MASIPAG(1), however, believes that the study is aimed to...
SMUGGLING, WTO PUSH FARMERS DEEPER INTO POVERTY
CABANATUAN CITY CITY. ? Lito Tambalo, 42, of Barangay Maimpis, Science City of Muņoz is a rice farmer whose family is forced to buy and eat the cheaper but lower quality imported rice that the government buys.
Such is the irony...
HYBRID RICE PROGRAM FAILED, SAYS STUDY
Government efforts to propagate the use of hybrid rice technology were slowed
In a study presented before the National Economic Development Authority, government think tank Philippine Institute of Development Studies (PIDS) said that only 10.9 percent of the target 79 percent total farmland has been...