Secretary General of the Indonesian Peasant Alliance (API), Muhammad Nuruddin, criticized the government programs to increase the production of rice, corn and soybeans (pajale) Indonesia. The reason, in the procurement of seeds, goverment encourage farmers to cooperate with big companies, and is not beneficial for farmers. Nuruddin said, the way this government will only make […]
Most genetic resources all around the world slowly flow toward many international seeds bank or directly to researcher. International seed corporations predominantly take benefits of the freely available genetic resources and develop it into million dollars-worth of exceptional, hybrid or transgenic seeds. So far, researchers in seeds industry have developed 72,500 new plant varieties or […]
Jakarta, November 2, 2015 – Indonesian Peasant Alliance (API) in cooperation with the Directorate of Staples and Strategic Goods of the Ministry of Commerce of the Republic of Indonesia (Bapokstra of Ministry of Commerce) has organized a Focus Group Discussion (FGD) entitled “The Effectiveness of the Current Policies on HPP of Paddy/Rice in the Coming […]