Vitarich to supply local markets with PHL-grown cream dory
PANGASIUS will bring back agricultural feeds manufacturer Vitarich Corp. on the radar screen of consumers through the recent launching of its Golden Dory line.
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PANGASIUS will bring back agricultural feeds manufacturer Vitarich Corp. on the radar screen of consumers through the recent launching of its Golden Dory line.
TWENTY-SEVEN species of grouper, locally known as lapu-lapu, have been molecularly identified through DNA fingerprinting and bar coding by the Central Luzon State University (CLSU), the Department of Agriculture (DA) said on Friday.
WINNERS at the 10th National Agriculture and Fisheries Technology Forum and Product Exhibition will use cash prizes for more research and development (R&D) to make their products commercially viable, the Bureau of Agriculture Research (BAR) said on Friday.
SHORTENING growing period and giving more plump to the native chicken may take six more years before tinola packs from its meat can start finding their way to the market, a government swine and poultry specialist said in a recent interview.
THE Bureau of Customs (BOC) on Thursday announced that it earned a total of P161.35 million from the public auction of 109,500 sacks of rice that were earlier seized by the agency for lack of import permit.
THERE is no guarantee that “clean” cows do not increase resistant bacteria in soil since these bacteria actually cause them to expand at a level considered to be dangerous to humans in the long haul.
YOU walk into a local store for your usual energy fix. Alongside popular brands, you find bottles of freshly harvested buko juice being sold as a health drink. But the bigger pleasant surprise is that farmers in your area actually produced it.
SUBIC BAY FREEPORT—An American company specializing in storage and preservation systems for dry agricultural commodities is now manufacturing an innovative drying facility that could protect grains against rain, ultraviolet (UV) rays and other contaminants.
THE Department of Agriculture (DA) is pushing for commercial- scale food production, including value adding in agro-industry by-products, to allow small-scale producers to get out of subsistence farming.
AGRICULTURE Secretary Proceso J. Alcala has urged farmers to venture into commercial scale-food production and ensure that their commodities earn more value if they wish to be more competitive.
THE Department of Agriculture (DA) has reaffirmed its commitment to make the country rabies-free.
THE Department of Agriculture-Philippine Rural Development Project (DA-PRDP) partners with various civil-society organizations (CSOs) in a bid to boost government transparency in implementing and monitoring projects aimed to alleviate poverty in the country’s rural areas.
THEY call it cabecillas in Luzon and pakyaw groups in the Visayan regions. Today they are known as the modern-day farm- service provider (FSP).
WITH the Christmas season nearing, the Court of Appeals (CA) has timely ruled on a trademark infringement and unfair competition case involving a ham product, a popular fixture on dining tables during Noche Buena.
ELEVEN farmers are seeking the High Tribunal’s intervention to reverse a Court of Appeals (CA) decision that stopped the commercial release of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) eggplant, according to data obtained on Friday.
INITIAL assessments show the great potential of corncobs as natural fertilizer, scientist Apolonio M. Ocampo said.
THE Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) said it is funding some P10.4-million infrastructure projects in Albay to boost further economic activities in the province.
SOME 50 fish pens and 25 oyster racks to be installed in the municipality of Tanauan, Leyte, are part of a project funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica).
THE government should impose higher import charges on pork offal and other “discarded” parts of pigs, according to the Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura (Sinag) and its allied group, the Swine Development Council (SDC), on Thursday.
A PARTY-LIST lawmaker has recently filed a bill promoting an agritourism to local and foreign tourists, interested in experiencing life on farms first hand.
REFLECTING a narrow production growth for livestock in the first half of the year with 0.94 percent, meat processors brought in raw materials pushing the country’s meat imports for the first half of the year with 256.4 million kilograms, based on the latest available data from the Department of Agriculture (DA) and its attached agency, the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI).
BACOLOD CITY—The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) plans to establish more sugar block-farms to help increase farmers’ income, as well as boost the country’s sugar-cane production.
ABOUT P30.4 million worth of rural infrastructure projects are expected to boost agricultural production in the province of Isabela, Agrarian Reform Regional Director Marjorie Ayson said.
FARMERS who built the rice terraces in Banaue and those who created similar paddies in the uplands of South Cotabato centuries ago were resource-smart, and they would certainly qualify to be considered practitioners of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) today.
HAIKOU, Hainan—With 22 years in the specialty-food industry, Hainan Nanguo Foodstuff Industrial Co. Ltd., a booming food-manufacturing enterprise in this city, is thankful to the Philippines for helping it develop coconut-based food products enjoyed not just by its market in China, but also the world over.
RAISING salmon in much the same way as industrial livestock and poultry farms is unsustainable, claims the Pure Salmon campaign, which claims that for every pound of farmed salmon, 3 pounds of fish in the wild are lost.
COMMUNITY-BASED approach is a partnership strategy between the researcher and the community, requiring the involvement of the community members throughout the research process, valuing their contributions in the decision-making process. The aim is to increase knowledge and understanding on both ends and integrate the knowledge gained with interventions to improve their quality of life.
A GROUP composed mainly of garlic growers has appealed to domestic consumers to use locally produced garlic to prevent smugglers and cartels from controlling the Philippine allium market.
THE slimy material that hosts bacteria called “biofilm” may soon be transformed into a product that can clean up Laguna de Bay and Pasig River, and added in pharmaceutical products.
A FIVE-MEMBER study team, led by a professor from the University of California-Davis (UC-Davis) has questioned the wisdom of the mandatory labeling of genetically modified (GM) food products, saying it violates commercial speech.
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