Floods in Davao cost P300M loss in farms, infra
by MART D. SAMBALUD Davao Today TAGUM CITY -- Three Davao provinces lost P300-million in agriculture and infrastructure damaged by rampaging floods early this week, various repors as of Thursday…
Today’s View : Organic Foods Festival
By DON J. PAGUSARA Davao Today Amidst the raging militarization in the countryside, our farmers under the MASIPAG (Makabayan Syentipiko Para sa AGrikultura) Movement have been sweating it out to…
ADVOCATES AGAINST GMO
Dr. Chito Medina of farmers support network MASIPAG (left) and Atty. Lee Aurelo of Third World Network (center) call for local and national laws to stop genetic-modified crops in the country for its negative effects on health, income and organic crops. They were resource persons in a forum last Thursday at Lispher Inn with City Councilors to discuss the banning of GMOs. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)
Law on Golden Rice ban urged
Non-government organizations supporting organic food and farms want local and national laws to ban genetically-modified crops such as the controversial Golden Rice for its detrimental effect to health and farmers’ income.