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The global market value of biotechnology crops in 2006 exceeded the $6-billion mark at $6.15 billion, registering a significant increase of almost a billion dollars over that of the previous year’s $5.25 billion.
The amount represented 16 percent of the $38.5 billion global crop protection market and 21 percent of the $30 billion global commercial seed market in 2006, the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) said.
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[Title] => RP savants push bill to draw private investments in biotechnology
[Summary] => A group of Filipino scientists is pushing for legislation that would encourage the private sector to invest in the wider commercialization of biotechnology products in the country.
"We want legislators to put in place a regulatory framework that will serve as a control system for products with biotech and human genome because the technology is very promising and could be beneficial to the public," said Dr. Perla S. Ocampo, president of the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST), in a recent presentation to the Senate.
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"We want legislators to put in place a regulatory framework that will serve as a control system for products with biotech and human genome because the technology is very promising and could be beneficial to the public," said Dr. Perla S. Ocampo, president of the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) in a recent presentation to the Senate.
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"We want legislators to put in place a regulatory framework that will serve as a control system for products with biotech and human genome because the technology is very promising and could be beneficial to the public," said Dr. Perla S. Ocampo, president of the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST), in a recent presentation to the Senate.
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"We want legislators to put in place a regulatory framework that will serve as a control system for products with biotech and human genome because the technology is very promising and could be beneficial to the public," said Dr. Perla S. Ocampo, president of the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) in a recent presentation to the Senate.
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[Title] => US offers to help RP push biotech
[Summary] => The United States expressed its willingness to help the Philippines propagate and commercialize biotech crops and products.
David Miller, agricultural counselor of the US Embassy in Manila said in a recent food safety seminar that the US is now focused on helping developing nations become "self-reliant and prosperous" in the field of agricultural biotechnology.
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[Summary] => The production of geneti-cally modified corn or Bt corn will expand to 50,000 hectares this year as more farmers switch to planting biotech crops, the Interna-tional Service of the Acquisi-tion of Agri-Biotech Applica-tions (ISAAA) said.
ISAAA, a nonprofit orga-nization engaged in agricul-tural biotechnology research, said local farmers are begin-ning to realize the benefits of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) corn and expects farmers to widely plant the crop.
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[Summary] => Biotechnology continues to be a growing choice among farmers worldwide as global acreage of crops enhanced through biotech increased by 12 percent, or 6.1 million hectares in 2002, according to a new report released today from the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA).
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The global market value of biotechnology crops in 2006 exceeded the $6-billion mark at $6.15 billion, registering a significant increase of almost a billion dollars over that of the previous year’s $5.25 billion.
The amount represented 16 percent of the $38.5 billion global crop protection market and 21 percent of the $30 billion global commercial seed market in 2006, the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) said.
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"We want legislators to put in place a regulatory framework that will serve as a control system for products with biotech and human genome because the technology is very promising and could be beneficial to the public," said Dr. Perla S. Ocampo, president of the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST), in a recent presentation to the Senate.
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"We want legislators to put in place a regulatory framework that will serve as a control system for products with biotech and human genome because the technology is very promising and could be beneficial to the public," said Dr. Perla S. Ocampo, president of the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) in a recent presentation to the Senate.
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"We want legislators to put in place a regulatory framework that will serve as a control system for products with biotech and human genome because the technology is very promising and could be beneficial to the public," said Dr. Perla S. Ocampo, president of the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST), in a recent presentation to the Senate.
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"We want legislators to put in place a regulatory framework that will serve as a control system for products with biotech and human genome because the technology is very promising and could be beneficial to the public," said Dr. Perla S. Ocampo, president of the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) in a recent presentation to the Senate.
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David Miller, agricultural counselor of the US Embassy in Manila said in a recent food safety seminar that the US is now focused on helping developing nations become "self-reliant and prosperous" in the field of agricultural biotechnology.
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ISAAA, a nonprofit orga-nization engaged in agricul-tural biotechnology research, said local farmers are begin-ning to realize the benefits of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) corn and expects farmers to widely plant the crop.
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