Rachelle; Mar’s challenges

By Job Tabada
Cebu Daily News
First Posted 13:18:00 09/26/2008

Somewhere in this area is a huge jatropha (tuba-tuba) plantation. Rice
farmers have reportedly been showing their indignation over the
destruction of rice farms and their displacement from the place, which
is now planted to tuba-tuba. Landowners have been lured by the
government’s biofuel program, which seeks to lessen the country’s
dependence on fossil fuel. Worldwide, experts see the biofuel program
as a “miscalculation” that negatively affects food production.

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