Philippine Media Enlightened on Biotechnology
May 15, 2009| |
"Biotech scare no more", say print and radio media practitioners from Visayas during the Media Workshop on Creating Public Awareness, Knowledge and Understanding of Biotech Crops, held at Sabin Resort Hotel, Ormoc City, on 12 May 2009. The media workshop tackled basic concepts of agricultural biotechnology, global status of biotechnology, biotechnology safety risk assessments, and biotechnology R&D activities and adoption in the country.
During the workshop, Dr. Jose Bacusmo, president of the Visayas State University (VSU), stressed "the need to forge partnership with the media as it is vital to communicate biotechnology to the public, especially to the Visayas region, which is presently in the hype of scare issues on biotechnology."
The media workshop was organized through collaboration among the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA), the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture Biotechnology Information Center (SEARCA BIC), Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCARRD), Program for Biosafety Systems Southeast Asia (PBS SEasia), and the Visayas State University.
For more information, email bic@agri.searca.org or visit www.searca.bic.org
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