Aerial Spray Issue Driving Banana Companies to Foreign Countries
By Roger M. Balanza, DURIANBURGDAVAO, durianpost.wordpress.com
The Davao Region economy, and other banana-growing regions in Southern and Central Mindanao, could end up as rotten as rotten bananas if banana companies pack their bananas and bring them to other countries. Read more >>
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Banana industry gears up for legal battle vs. aerial spray ban
By Roger M. Balanza, DURIANBURGDAVAO, durianpost.wordpress.com
The banana industry is prepping up for a new legal front—the second as the beleaguered industry faces off critics over the issue of aerial spraying. Read more >>
More than 200 small banana growers and members of cooperatives of several agrarian reform benficiaries from Davao del Norte marched to the Department of Agriculture at the elliptical circle in Quezon City on Friday, December 11, 2009 to press Agriculture Sec. Arthur Yap not to sign an administrative order banning aerial spray. The ban to be imposed in banana plantations in Mindanao was recommended by the Department of Health based on a defective study on the health conditions of residents in Sitio Camocaan, Hagonoy Davao del Sur. (PBGEA Photo)