Browsing by Subject "pest control"

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    • Alternative for pesticides vs mud snails studied 

      Fernandez, Rudy A. (The Philippine Star, June 14, 1998, on page 18)
      Scientists of a Philippine-based Southeast Asian center are close to finding an alternative to banned pesticides used by fishfarmers in controlling mud snails in bangus ponds. Field trial of the alternative, a metaldehyde ...

    • BFAR helps catfish farmers contain bullfrog- infestation 

      Ocampo, Yas D. (Manila Bulletin, January 18, 2018, on page B-8)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) is training a community of catfish (hito) growers fight a bullfrog infestation that has threatened their livelihood for months in the industry town of Los Amigos, this ...

    • DA boosts seaweed industry, address 'cocolisap' scourge 

      (Manila Bulletin, September 18, 2016, on page 17)
      The national government through the Department of Agriculture (DA) has extended P10.67 million worth of assistance to strengthen the carrageenan industry in the Zamboanga peninsula. Piñol also awarded 50 fiberglass bancas, ...

    • DA to use quarantine measures to prevent entry of pests, diseases 

      Go, Marianne V. (The Philippine Star, March 25, 2010, on page B-10)
      The Philippine will rely on biosecurity and quarantine protocols to protect Philippine agriculture from pest and diseases that may threaten the country with the implementation and effectively of the ASEAN Free Trade ...

    • Firm vows to help promote tobacco use vs farm, fishponds pests 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, January 12, 2014, on page A8)
      A tobacco company based in Bulacan province said it would promote the use of tobacco dust as organic fertilizer and pesticide to help at least three million tobacco farmers and their families earn more income. “We are going ...

    • Important researches given awards 

      (Manila Bulletin, August 14, 1990, on page 1)
      The discovery of new local tanning extracts, a system for increasing yield of milkfish (bangus) and a method for carbonizing rice hulls are among the researches that will receive award this week from Agriculture Secretary ...

    • 'Red label' endangers Iloilo's aquaculture 

      PN (Panay News, October 15, 1999, on page 6-2)
      Iloilo has a bright future in aquaculture but that might go snafu anytime because highly toxic chemicals, including those banned, are still used here. A farmer leader said Iloilo the past five years managed to revive ...

    • Sea bass tapped to stop fish invading 'bangus' ponds 

      Cardinoza, Gabriel (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 15, 2016, on page A15)
      Government marine experts released 5,000 sea bass fingerlings on Friday into the Watac-Mamalingling River here in an effort to control the growing population of a species of tilapia, locally known as "molmol," that had ...