2009-03-19 | permalink

Philippine professor urges government to revolutionize GMO policies

[Chris Michelina, managing director of Initiative for Farm Advocacy and Resource Management] from the University of the Philippines-Mindanao has urged the government to revolutionize its policy on biotechnology and support scientists whose work on local biological research promotes genetically improved crops. [...] ”The antibiotech movement has only succeeded in scaring small companies from investing in biotechnology and some small governments from investing in biotechnology. They have unwittingly, or wittingly, contributed to the creation of a monopoly of biotech business,” Rasco lamented.

• Business Mirror, Philippines: Government urged to revolutionize biotech policies
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