FOREIGN COMPANIES OUT TO KILL PHILIPPINE BANANAS If they are mere farmers, where did MAAS and IDIS members get the funds to pay for the P200,000 one-page ad in a national daily newspaper that blasphemed the banana industry? From foreign banana companies out to kill the Philippine banana […]
The good and the bad bananas By ROGER M. BALANZA Two events that hardly caught the attention of the public as the country grappled with the damage of super typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng had bananas at the center. First. Pseudo environmentalist groups battling aerial spraying at the […]
DAVAO CITY – Even as it would have fatal effect on the Davao Region’s economy, businessmen here say they would welcome a ruling by the Supreme Court that would ban use of aerial spraying in banana plantations. But the Davao City Chamber of Commerce and Industry said its […]
The Pilipino Banana Growers and Exporters Association (PBGEA) yesterday dismissed claims by elements of non-government organizations of getting death threats for campaigning against aerial spraying purportedly from goons hired by banana planters. PBGEA is the umbrella group of export Cavendish banana growers which questioned a Davao City ordinance […]
Fear of ban displaces 2,000 banana farm workers The ban on aerial spraying on farms may have been aborted but it had already taken serious toll on a former banana planting community in Davao City that shut down at the height of the controversy. A large banana plantation […]
Catholics join fight vs. anti-aerial spray activists Anti-aerial spraying activists now making noise in Manila should visit the Davao Region where Catholics are up in arms against banning aerial spraying in banana plantations. In Manila, the Interface Development Interventions (IDIS) and the Mamamayang Ayaw sa Aerial Spraying […]
