The holding of the 1st Philippine International BioEnergy Conference at the Manila Hotel comes on the heels of the $1.78 billion investment of China in Nigeria to produce bioethanol using sweet sorghum as feedstock. [...] Experts have said that for sugarcane to be a major feedstock for ethanol, the best option is to use genetically-modified sugarcane like the Honeywell strain developed by the University of Queensland in Australia.