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Article: Iloilo farmers report record harvest of pest-resistant corn.(Provincial News)
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- Article date:
- March 19, 2008
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Byline: MARVYN N. BENANING
Corn farmers in Iloilo, particularly in the town of Sara, are now planting genetically enhanced varieties to maximize their profits, with many of them swearing that they have been netting between R25,000 and R35,000 per hectare per cropping season.
Curiously, these farmers are not planting the crop in flatlands but in hostile territory, in the steep hillsides and slopes earlier believed to be hostile to any food crop.
Moreover, the new corn variety they are using, Roundup Ready, fits upland soil and uses practically no herbicides since the strain has been genetically enhanced by Monsanto Philippines to survive with ...