Browsing Manila Bulletin by Author "Sarian, Zac B."

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    • Book on tilapia farming launched at Agri-Kapihan 

      Sarian, Zac B. (Manila Bulletin, February 12, 1998, on page 23)
      By the way, the photo used in last week's agriculture page was the cover photo of SEAFDEC's newsletter, Asian Aquaculture, which came out last year. It shows SEAFDEC's technician, Rene Cañas, at the center's Technology ...

    • Colored tilapia makes very good dried fish 

      Sarian, Zac B. (Manila Bulletin, June 18, 2015, on page B-7)
      One novel preparation of the colored tilapia, sometimes called kingfish, is dried something like the “danggit” that you and I love for breakfast. This dried colored tilapia is a new preparation by Dr. Frank dela Peña a ...

    • Crablets: key to increase in crab output 

      Sarian, Zac B. (Manila Bulletin, November 19, 2015, on page B-7)
      At the just-concluded national mud crab congress in Iloilo City, it was very clear that to increase production of crabs for export and for the local market, there should be year-round availability of crablets for grow out ...

    • Dar at SEAFDEC Anniversary 

      Sarian, Zac B. (Manila Bulletin, July 9, 1998, on page B-14)
      Agriculture Secretary William D. Dar will be the guest speaker today at the 25th anniversary celebration of SEAFDEC AQD in Tigbauan, Iloilo. Three activities will highlight the event. One is the launching of manual titled ...

    • Degraded streams into fish habitat 

      Sarian, Zac B. (Manila Bulletin, September 17, 2016, on page B-6)
      Dr. Macrina Zafaralla is a one-woman army going around the country to promote her advocacy of reviving degraded shallow streams and rivers by a very simple and doable technique that rids the water of pollution so fishes ...

    • Engineer puts up high-tech Spirulina farm 

      Sarian, Zac B. (Manila Bulletin, January 4, 2018, on page B-7)
      All the requirements that are needed to succeed in growing the alga have been studied by Pol, and so successful is he that even the researchers from UP Los Baños and La Salle University, have admired his success in producing ...

    • Farming the sea in Lanao Del Norte 

      Sarian, Zac B. (Manila Bulletin, January 9, 2016, on page B-6)
      Government projects that showcase practical opportunities whether in farming or fisheries, will always have positive results. Just like the mariculture park project in Lanao del Norte which was launched in 2010 in Panguil ...

    • Ferment your own fertilizer from seaweeds 

      Sarian, Zac B. (Manila Bulletin, April 6, 2017, on page B-7)
      Every morning Rodel Tumbaga gathers the seaweeds brought to shore by the waves and piles them along the edge of a resort he works for in Bolinao, Pangasinan. Is there any use for them? Not that Rodel knows of. That’s why ...

    • High-value Lapu-lapu spawned artificially 

      Sarian, Zac B. (Manila Bulletin, August 29, 2002, on page B-18)
      The most-sought after species of lapu-lapu has been spawned in captivity by fisheries experts of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center-Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC-AQD) and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic ...

    • Insights on Taal tilapia cage culture 

      Sarian, Zac B. (Manila Bulletin, April 5, 2018, on page B-8)
      Last March 23, we attended a tilapia stakeholders consultative meeting in Talisay, Batangas convened by a major aquafeeds supplier and attended by more that a hundred fishcage operators, hatchery owners, traders and ...

    • Mariculture is the answer 

      Sarian, Zac B. (Manila Bulletin, September 9, 2010, on page B-5)
      The development of mariculture parks promises to be the answer to the continuing depletion of fish catch in our marine waters that threatens the livelihood of fisherfolks in our coastal communities. That is why the Bureau ...

    • May Agriculture magazine has a lot of agri info 

      Sarian, Zac B. (Manila Bulletin, May 5, 2018, on page B-5)
      Make sure to get a copy of the May 2018 issue of Agriculture Magazine which is now off the press. It contains a lot of informative articles that can be useful to aspiring farmers as well as those who have been farming for ...

    • New hope for native hito; breading technic developed 

      Sarian, Zac B. (Manila Bulletin, June 25, 1998, on page B-18)
      The vanishing native hito (Clarias macrocephalus) may once again become available if results of experiments at the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) are popularized and commercialized. We just got a ...

    • Red snapper is a promising marine fish for aquaculture 

      Sarian, Zac B. (Manila Bulletin, December 3, 1998, on page 28)
      One direction that aquaculture should take, is the culture of more marine species not only in cages in marine waters but also in brackish fishponds which used to be devoted to tiger prawn. In Taiwan, the private fish ...

    • Sea water increases peanut yield 

      Sarian, Zac B. (Manila Bulletin, January 8, 2015, on page B7)
      Did you know that you can increase the yield of your peanut by irrigating your plants with sea water? That’s what a lady farmer scientist from Ubay, Bohol had discovered in her own experiment. The farmer scientist is Cirila ...

    • Some fisheries research findings of interest 

      Sarian, Zac B. (Manila Bulletin, June 22, 2000, on page B-10)
      Several researches in aquaculture and marine fisheries in the last few years have yielded promising results which could result in improved fish production as well as processing of marine products. One of the latest researches ...

    • Up in Taiwan tilapia is not only for eating 

      Sarian, Zac B. (Manila Bulletin, July 6, 2017, on page B-8)
      Tilapia is considered as Taiwan’s National Fish. It is tops in terms of volume of production and area devoted for growing the fish. Tilapia is also No.1 in terms of fish export from that island nation. But tilapia is not ...