(Article Published in the May Issue of China Business Philippines Magazine)

Recent news finds politics constantly competing with the GLOBAL food crisis as the hottest buzz of the day. The obvious solution to dwindling food supplies is of course to increase production by planting more crops, raising more livestock, and building more fishponds. With this comes increased fertilizer and feed use.

The business opportunities here are quite obvious. But the drawbacks are clear. For one thing, increased use of fertilizers, pesticides, and feeds means more pollution. Several types of cancers, algal blooms, and species extinction have been linked by countless studies to farm-originated pollution.