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    • Better livelihood opportunity for farmers promoted 

      (Panay News, September 1, 2015, on page 16-17)
      Goat raising, a practical business venture requiring low initial capital, is not popular among farmers as a livelihood option due to their lack of proper skills and motivation to improve goat management. To change farmers’ ...
    • Copra meal is a vital feed source 

      Yap, Julio Jr. (Panay News, June 21, 2017, on page 10)
      Copra meal is a vital feed source in the Philippines. It is primarily used in the manufacture of feed for animals. Under the project, several feeding trials were conducted on shrimp (Penaeus vannamei) in low and high density ...
    • Filipinos have a stake in aquaculture at SEAFDEC 

      PN (Panay News, August 20, 2010, on page B6-B7)
      The right to the science-based technologies in raising fish developed by the research center the government supports. The right to demand technical assistance in aquaculture. The right to be trained by world-class experts ...
    • Healthiest fish to eat 

      (Panay News, September 10, 2015, on page B3)
      Fish can provide an excellent low-calorie protein source without the fat and cholesterol of red meats. However; some varieties such as shark and mackerel are very high in mercury. Mercury is a known carcinogen and a pollutant ...
    • 'Intercrop' rice with pantat, farmers urged 

      PN (Panay News, December 3, 1999, on page 7-6)
      Freshwater fishes can be "intercropped" with rice, increasing a farming family's income and at the same time, the protein and energy intake of its members. That's possible, reads a primer distributed by the Technology and ...
    • "Lampirong will be back in our tables soon" - BFAR 

      Portal, Tadz (Panay News, June 3, 2002, on page 5)
      Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) Regional Director Sonia Seville advised fishermen along shores where once there were abundant harvests of lampirong (Placuna placenta) or kapis shells to "wait a little bit ...
    • Protect, conserve fishery resources 

      (Panay News, October 19, 2018, on page 7)
      Beginning next month until February 2019 the Visayan Sea would again be closed to fishing activities. The annual three-month "closed season" aims to replenish sardines herrings and mackerels in the Visayan Sea. catching, ...
    • Viability of producing functional food 

      Yap, Julio P. Jr. (Panay News, July 27, 2018, on page 10)
      The production or processing of functional food is becoming one of the fast growing segments of the country’s food industry. Functional food contains both essential nutrients and health promoting non-nutrients. However, ...
    • World's fish consumption unsustainable, warns UN 

      Reuters (Panay News, July 27, 2018, on page B4)
      A third of the world’s oceans are overfished and fish consumption is at an all-time high, raising fears over the sustainability of a key source of protein for millions around the world, the United Nations warned in a report ...
    • Youth called to engage in aquaculture to secure fish supply 

      Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center/ Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC/AQD) (Panay News, March 31, 2021, on page 13)
      The African swine fever threatening the protein supplies of the country still grappling with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic prompted the chief of an international research center to call for more youth ...