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2009-03-16 |

Philippine peasant group denounces DuPont and IRRI partnership

”DuPont and IRRI are culprits of shrinking agricultural productivity around the world and in the Philippines, rice production is being systematically destroyed by the use of these hybrid and genetically-modified rice varieties that require massive use of expensive agro-chemicals marketed by giant agro-TNCs such as DuPont and Syngenta,” said Danilo H. Ramos, KMP Secretary-General in a press statement.

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2009-03-16 |

Philippine peasant group denounces DuPont and IRRI partnership

”DuPont and IRRI are culprits of shrinking agricultural productivity around the world and in the Philippines, rice production is being systematically destroyed by the use of these hybrid and genetically-modified rice varieties that require massive use of expensive agro-chemicals marketed by giant agro-TNCs such as DuPont and Syngenta,” said Danilo H. Ramos, KMP Secretary-General in a press statement.

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