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Entrepreneurship needed in the countryside
There are actually many opportunities waiting for the enterprising to undertake. Like, for instance, Jose "Lebong" Aralar in Binangonan, Rizal. He used to be a nurse in a hospital many years ago. However, he saw the potential ...
- August 10, 2000
SEAFDEC way of reaching out to the masses
Under the leadership of Dr. Rolando R. Platon, more towns in Western Visayas and other parts of the country are recipients of technologies centered on propagation of inland fish production. Tilapia culture in small freshwater ...
- August 31, 2000
Philippine science as world science: The case of milkfish reproduction
By the early 1980s, Clarissa Marte (also a UP faculty member) and Flor Lacanilao had both moved to the Aquaculture Department of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) in Iloilo where they tried a ...
- January 10, 2008
Fisheries center opens door to investors
Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center's Aquaculture Development has opened its doors to businessmen looking at possible investments in aquaculture under an agree-build-operate-transfer scheme (Abot). According to ...
- January 4, 2008
Capitol sets up center for 'rice-fish culture'
The Iloilo provincial government is setting up a fish hatchery in Cabatuan town, 20 kilometers north of this city, to promote the "appropriate technology" in "rice-fish culture". The Lowland Technology Development and ...
- February 28, 2000
RP mangrove scientist among Time's heroes of environment
As always, Jurgenne Primavera though about her achievements. The retired Iloilo-based scientist has been featured by Time magazine in its Oct. 6 special issue on "Heroes of the Environment." She was among 30 activists, ...
- October 12, 2008
Modern biotech lab in Iloilo nears completion
The construction of a modern biotechnology laboratory in this seaside town 24 kilometers west of Iloilo City is nearing completion. The Japanese government-funded, P431-million Laboratory for Advance Aquaculture Technologies ...
- December 28, 2002
2 Ilonggos succeed on bangus, biscocho
Tomas Hautea began exercising his entrepreneurial skills when he was still a student. At 18, Tomas also ventured into agriculture and leased fishponds, eventually purchasing the now family-owned fishpond in Dumangas, Iloilo ...
- September 7, 2008
SEAFDEC-AQD: RP-based facility powers Asia to the forefront of world aquaculture dev't
Some 10,000 aquaculturists from across the world, mostly Southeast Asians, have been trained on scientific aquaculture over the past 25 years by a Philippine-based Southeast Asian center. The training program is being ...
- December 3, 2000
Revival of native hito offers new opportunity
In these uncertain times, it is always good to know of new opportunities in farming. One such possibility is growing the native hito which has virtually disappeared in the past many years because of the poisoning of rice ...
- September 9, 2000