Indo Economist Bats For Biotech
July 20, 2007| |
Former Indonesian Minister of Economic Affairs and economist, Bustanul Arifin, called on the government to urgently promote biotechnology to ensure food security and improve the lives of farmers. Arifin, speaking in a seminar organized by the Indonesian Biotechnology Information Center, said that Indonesia needs a technology breakthrough like biotechnology to improve food production, especially rice, maize, sugarcane, and soybean.
During the same seminar, Graham Brookes, director of the United Kingdom.-based biotechnology consultancy firm, PG Economics Limited, highlighted the global impact of biotech crops, particularly with regards to their economical and environmental effects in the first ten years of commercial use.
For more information, email Dr. Bambang Purwantara at b.purwantara@biotrop.org or Dewi Suryani at dewisuryani@biotrop.org, or visit http://www.antara.co.id/arc/2007/7/17/pemerintah-tak-serius-kembangkan-rekayasa-genetika/ for the article in Bahasa.
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