Sunday, December 20, 2009

Philippine Farmers Embrace GM Crops

Farmer Jerry Due cites bargain pesticide use and added yields as greatest allowances to his family.

-- The Philippines is one of 11 developing countries and one of the aboriginal countries in Asia to accept GM crops. Corn growers in this country face agilely top levels of Asian blah borers that abound the crops and abnormally appulse yields.

“We accept been application (Bt corn) for two years now. We hardly use pesticides and the crop has improved,” says Jerry Due, who has fought blah borers back he started agriculture in 1990. “It has been about a 20 to 30 percent access from the antecedent yield.”

“Another account of biotech blah is that we do not accept to bake the balance in our autumn anymore. We just acquiesce the balance to decompose in the acreage to become fertilizers,” continues Due in a video account at biotech-gmo.com. “Our above convenance was to bake them. With the advice of Bt, this will not accept the aforementioned adverse accoutrement in our environment.”

In 2005, Due was one of added than 50,000 resource-poor Philippine farmers who grew biotech blah on about 100,000 hectares – consistent in college incomes and bargain pesticide applications countrywide. “I ambition my son to crop apprenticeship seriously. And added crop will accomplish that possible,” says Due. “By the time he goes to school, he will accept abundant money to break in the school.”

While blah is the alone biotech crop currently developed in the Philippines, advisers are administering in-country lab, greenhouse and acreage studies on a advanced array of crops important to Philippine agronomics including papaya, rice, tomatoes, coconut, mangoes and bananas.

“If there were no Bt corn, I would not bulb afresh afterwards acumen the aberration it makes in our harvest,” Due says. “Maybe those humans whom argue biotechnology do not apperceive all the acceptable things it has done for us.”

This absolute account with Jerry Due – as able-bodied as video interviews with two of his adolescent countrymen, Jesus Gavino and Roman Bernal – can be begin at Monsanto Company’s Conversations about Plant Biotechnology website: http://www.monsanto.com/biotech-gmo/new.htm

Note to Editors: 1 hectare = 2.47 acres

Contact:
Michael Doane
314-694-8351

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