Source – Biology Fortified
By Steve Savage
Date – 26 July 2013
Website – www.biofortified.org
Hawaii currently plays an important role in the global food supply – one far more important than that of its historical sugarcane and pineapple industries. When the economic viability of plantation agriculture declined in the 1990s, a number of international seed companies began to use some of that land as a “winter nursery” site. The mild climate allows multiple generations/year of crops like corn/maize. This helps to accelerate the breeding, testing and early seed increase of that critically important feed/food/fuel crop…
Read more: http://www.biofortified.org/2013/07/why-im-going-to-hawaii-to-defend-the-maize-winter-nurseries/