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Japanese pastors learn shocking things about Davao bananas

By GERMELINA A. LACORTE | Davao Today

Reverend Fr. John Yuji Kanzaki, chair of the Philippine committee of the National Christian Churches of Japan (NCCJ), remembers growing up in Japan, where he used to love bananas as a boy. ?Bananas are expensive in Japan,? he tells reporters here, ?When I was a boy, I can?t stop eating them.? But a recent visit in banana plantations in Compostela Valley made him change his mind.

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Davao farmers slam jathropa planting, Biofuels Act

?Foreign-funded Jathropa plantations are encroaching on agricultural lands and it only adds to the existing laws and policies that cause food deprivation among the poor Filipinos like the 70% farmers and farm workers in the country,? Celso Pojas, KMP-SMR spokesperson said.

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