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Gov’t lauds advances to lower cost of fish farming
A Philippine government committee commended developments in aquaculture research that lowered the cost of aqua feeds for milkfish and tilapia by 30 percent. In a recent meeting, the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development ...
- November 6, 2019
SEAFDEC AQD laid the cornerstone for its Enclosed Wet Laboratory
The Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC AQD) held the cornerstone-laying for its Enclosed Wet Laboratory is a component project of the Laboratory for Advanced Aquaculture Technologies. ...
- February 27, 2002
Shelter from the storm: Coastal greenbelts of mangroves and beach forests
A school module published in 2009 — the Mangrove Resource and Instruction for Elementary Grades — already differentiated storm surges from tsunamis. Funded by P1 million from my Pew Fellowship grant to cover module writing, ...
- December 19, 2013
Local shrimp industry seen to regain strength
Close to a thousand shrimp growers in the country met recently in Bacolod City and agreed to join hands in solving the problems besetting the shrimp industry. In a display of oneness, they hammered out seven urgent resolutions ...
- August 11, 2002
Department for fisheries proposed at Congress
Six members of the House of Representatives are sponsoring a bill that will create a department that will be responsible for developing and securing the country's fishery and aquatic resources. Rogelio Amatorio, a fisherfolk ...
- December 20, 2007
Seafdec pushes aquaculture biotechnology in Asean
Dr. Joebert D. Toledo, the Filipino scientist who heads the Aquaculture Department (AQD) of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Council (Seafdec), was candid enough. Genetic manipulation, he said, is not yet acceptable ...
- February 14, 2012
Japan provides $6M for biotech aquaculture lab in Iloilo
Japan has provided a grant of $6 million (more than P30 million) for the establishment of an aquaculture biotechnology laboratory of the government-hosted Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department ...
- September 28, 2001
Gov't outfits provide small firms with commerciable technologies
Small agribusiness firms need not be daunted by the high technology required for their expansion and growth toward global competitiveness. Competent technology assistance is being provided by the Bureau of Agricultural ...
- August 26, 2006
RP's first mariculture park to rise in Guimaras
The country's first mariculture park has been established in Igang Bay, Nueva Valencia, Guimaras. The park was jointly set up by the government-hosted Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department ...
- June 17, 2001
Shrimp farmers in the Philippines go for the Pacific white shrimp
Thirty-eight (38) grow-out farms and seven (7) accredited hatcheries might not seem a lot, but their very existence signals the Philippines' entry into white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei aquaculture. Foreign and local ...
- June 25, 2008