The group noted that if studies by the Philippine Sugar Research Institute on High Yielding Varieties of sugarcane will have to stop due to the GMO ban, the sugar industry in Negros will be in danger of collapsing. PHILSURIN, which, Montinola, Valderama, and De la Cruz said, will be introducing a new sugarcane variety that is nitrogen fixing and uses biotechnology, has placed an advertisement in newspapers today in opposition to the ban.