STATE OF THE ART FACILITY Stakeholders join the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Crop Biotechnology Center in Nueva Ecija led by Agriculture Secretary William Dar (sixth from left) and Acting Agricultural…
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Photo by Waldemar Brandt on Unsplash One Banana to Rule Them All Of the many varieties of bananas produced and consumed around the world annually, the Cavendish Banana stands out…
Published on September 26, 2021 | Robin McKie, Science and environment editor of ‘The Guardian’ The biotechnology is comparable to traditional breeding methods and vital to create livestock resistant to…
Published on September 21, 2021 | Joan Conrow, Cornell Alliance for Science | Genetic Literacy Project Insect-resistant brinjal, or eggplant, is arguably the most impactful project to bring agricultural biotechnology…
Photo by Zoya Loonohod on Unsplash The gradually rising levels of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions as a result of human activity has been at the center of many economic…
Photo by Naja Bertolt Jensen on Unsplash Of the 300 million tons of plastic produced each year, a corresponding 8 million tons of it end up in our oceans and…
Published on August 24, 2021 | Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) The recent commercial propagation approval of Golden Rice was lauded by global experts as an indicator of the Philippines’…
Published on August 17, 2021 | Joseph Maina, Alliance for Science Though biotechnology is most often seen as a tool to meet Africa’s food needs, it could also play a…
Photo by Aman Bhargava on StockSnap According to the Fish Forward Project, an EU co-funded program that aims to raise awareness on sustainable seafood consumption, overfishing is one of the…
Published on August 19,2021 | Edwin Paraluman and Philippine Farmers Advisory Board Chairman | The Manila Times WHEN it comes to new agricultural technologies, seeing is believing. I planted genetically…