tion:“Before now, I didn’t sleep well when I planted corn in my field,” recalled Edwin Paraluman, a farmer from the Philippines. “I was always afraid that I would wake up one day to find my corn field destroyed by the corn borer. This is because the corn borer in the Philippines does not respect any season, it is always there in the corn field.”Paraluman said his endless worries and precautions did very little to curtail the huge LOSSES arising from the corn borer problem. “I would always lose when I planted corn and it came to a TIME when l had to stop planting corn and shifted to vegetables. I planted squash, string beans, other crops,” he added.That was a disturbing course of events for Paraluman, who had been planting corn with his parents since childhood and continued the practice when he started his own family.So his “JOY knew no bounds” when he learned there was a technology that could DEAL with the corn borer in his country. Paraluman was among the first farmers in Philippines to embrace this new technology and PLANT the genetically modified pest-resistant Bt corn.