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| | Teves’ arrest: A strike against agrarian reform |
 | | After testing their campaign in the Mekong Delta, where almost two million rice growers were persuaded to cut back on using harmful and unnecessary farm chemicals, the research partners launched, on World Environment Day last June, a similar, on-going campaign in northern Thailand's Sing Buri Province. |
 | | The radio dramas, supported by leaflets and posters, were first aired in Long An Province in 1994. |
 | | Firstly, it clearly identified the damage caused by the overuse of insecticides, which kills off friendly insects and so encourages the pests they would otherwise help control, and it also developed a completely new way of communicating important information to farmers. |
| www.cyberdyaryo.com /press_release/pr2002_0524_02.htm (1071 words) |
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