PETALING JAYA: A group of farmers and non-government organisations are objecting to Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute's (Mardi) application to plant the genetically-modified (GM) rice MR219 on a test field.
A total of 54 community and farmer organisations as well as NGOs jointly submitted a memorandum of protest to the National Biosafety Board asking it to reject Mardi's application to carry out the field test.
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