Global biotechnology pioneer Monsanto has asked the government to regulate proliferating counterfeit biotechnology seeds in the market that puts at risk investments in agriculture and poses threat of decline of farmers’ yield and income.
Global biotechnology pioneer Monsanto has asked the government to regulate proliferating counterfeit biotechnology seeds in the market that puts at risk investments in agriculture and poses threat of decline of farmers’ yield and income.
Presence of counterfeit seeds now accounts for close to 10% of market share of the Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) corn, according to Gabriel O. Romero, Monsanto Philippines senior regulatory and scientific affairs lead, in a press briefing.
“This is becoming an alarming issue. It is causing failure in farmers’ yield, and it will cause failure of the technology,” said Romero at a field tour at Monsanto’s seed processing plant in Pulilan, Bulacan.
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