Why promote hybrid rice?
Posted on September 15, 2006 - Filed Under Punch Forum | Leave a Comment
Eduardo Pontaoe
15 Sept 2006
Well, Mr. Pablico, we are into it again. You’d been advocating the advantages of planting hybrid rice but you never discussed the futility of its acceptance. Hybrid rice is resoundingly rejected by farmers in Asia…you know why…because it’s very expensive, too reliant on fertilizers and pesticides and a very poor techno-fix to [...]
