Agri-biotech Can Boost Philippine Food Exports
August 27, 2014| |
The growth of agri-biotechnology has increased Philippines' prospects for increased food and feed exports to regional markets, according to a government official. Dr. Segfredo Serrano, Agriculture Undersecretary for Policy, Planning, Research & Development and Regulations, said that higher yields for the yellow corn biotech variety "favored the livestock industry and enabled farmers to export corn sillage to South Korea." Serrano said higher biotech yellow corn harvests helped the country stop the annual importation of one million metric tons of the commodity used by the livestock industry.
The Philippine Department of Agriculture announced last year that corn export was a part of the government's export program, with South Korea and Malaysia as initial target markets.
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