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Yap orders thorough probe on Quedancor fund mess
Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap has ordered a thorough audit of the loan portfolio of the Quedan and Rural Credit Guarantee Corp. (Quedancor) due to the more than P500 million unexplained losses to the government. In a ...
- July 16, 2007
Gov't sees tripling of shrimp production
The government estimates that shrimp production in the Philippines will triple by next year once the study on Peneus vannamei (P. vannamei), also known as Pacific White shrimp, becomes successful. The Department of Agriculture ...
- October 16, 2005
Prawn farms destroying nation's fish nurseries
She helped turn many of the world's prawn farmers into millionaires, but Jurgenne Primavera now worries that her life's work might have indirectly accelerated the destruction of fish nurseries. The Filipino zoologist, whose ...
- April 11, 2008
Mangrove conservation, rehabilitation gab held
A three-day seminar on Mangrove Conservation and Rehabilitation was recently held at the Sampaguita Garden Resort in New Washington town Aklan. The activity, which wrapped up yesterday, aims to promote people's awareness ...
- August 20, 2005
Yap orders thorough probe on Quedancor fund mess
Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap has ordered a thorough audit of the loan portfolio of the Quedan and Rural Credit Guarantee Corp. (Quedancor) due to the more than P500 million unexplained losses to the government. In a ...
- July 16, 2007
Training to boost aqua-marine industry held in Capiz
The season-long training to help boost the province's aquamarine production was recently concluded. Provincial Agriculture chief Sylvia de la Cruz disclosed that the first phase of the collaborative fisheries development ...
- July 21, 2007
Seaweed seedling, gene banks to be established in Tawi-Tawi
The government and stakeholders of the seaweed industry in Western Mindanao are set to put up seaweed seedling and gene banks in the province of Tawi-Tawi in the middle of this year. Maria Jaqueline M. Carrasco, executive ...
- April 19, 2007