Govt order on GMOs seen killing farmers

THE left-leaning Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) on Wednesday criticized the Aquino administration for rushing new rules pertaining to genetically modified organism imports in response to the December 2015 ruling of the Supreme Court (SC) on the BT eggplant that also temporarily stopped the government from accepting applications for field testing, propagating and importing GMOs.

The SC decision effectively nullified Administrative Order No. 8 series of 2002 or the “Rules and Regulation for the Importation and Release into the Environment of Plant and Plant Products Derived from the Use of Modern Biotechnology.”