Farmers are the biggest stakeholders in Biotech War

A few columns ago, we cited a reported move by several farmers from various parts of the country to get their voices heard by the Supreme Court (SC) in the legal tug-of-war over modern agricultural biotechnology.

This tug-of-war pits the Europe-based activist group Greenpeace against our science community led by researchers from the University of the Philippines-Los Baños (UPLB). The case now before the SC stemmed from a recent legal victory of Greenpeace which somehow managed to secure a decision from Court of Appeals (CA) stopping Filipino scientists from completing field trials for a biotech eggplant variety called Bt Talong.