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SEAFDEC-TLRC seminar on prawn grow-out operations
The Philippines is located on a strategic site of the South Pacific which supplies one-third of the world market for shrimps. However, the country remains one of the 10 lower shrimp exporters.
- March 11, 1988
Higher budget urged for aggie research
The government has to invest more on research activities to push economic development in the country. This was stated by Dr. Flor Lacanilao, chief of the SEAFDEC (Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center) Aquaculture ...
- September 18, 1987
Prawn culture sparks renewed public interest
The 60 peso/plate grilled sugpo that the Filipino gourmet smack his lips over in Manila may literally reflect the "phenomenal growth" of the Philippines' prawn industry, but prawn farmers themselves hedge against making ...
- December 10, 1987
French grant for SEAFDEC
A Tahiti-based French marine research center recently offered a grant amounting to 170,000 French francs to the Philippine-based Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) Aquaculture Department to conduct ...
- April 18, 1985
Milkfish research gets Canadian fund support
The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada has approved a $423,600 grant for the SEAFDEC aquaculture department to implement Phase III of the milkfish research project, starting April 1. Phase III, which ...
- June 3, 1982
Many farmers shift to shrimp culture
An increasing number of farmers in the Philippines are converting their fields into shrimp farms. Shrimp farming in the Philippines which has developed into important food industry in the recent years, generally uses ...
- July 28, 1987
SEAFDEC-TLRC seminar on prawn hatchery operations and management
The Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) is co-sponsoring with the Technology and Livelihood Resource Center a seminar on Prawn Hatchery Operation and Management from Aug. 17 to 22, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. A ...
- August 8, 1987
Extensive, not intensive fishfarming
How intensive is intensive? Fishpond operators may claim that they are engaged in intensive prawn culture if they have stocked their ponds with 10,000 to 50,000 fry per hectare. And based on Philippine industry standards, ...
- February 12, 1986
Center presents plan for sufficiency in fish
The aquaculture department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (Seafdec-AQD) has presented a four-year plan which aims to achieve for the country self-sufficiency in fish by 1987. The plan also aims to ...
- July 29, 1985
SEAFDEC-TLRC seminar on prawn hatchery operations and management
Exports of shrimps and prawns increased from 1,700 tons in 1975 to 4,200 tons in 1979 showing an equivalent increase in revenue from P50M to P264M. Seventy percent of all prawns exported from the Philippines in 1982 were ...
- November 20, 1987