Browsing BusinessWorld by Subject "aquaculture economics"
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Agriculture fund to release P3 billion worth of loans to support fish farmers
(BusinessWorld,June 5, 2019 , on page S1/5)The Department of Finance (DoF) has approved the use of at least P3 billion for the development of fish farming, tapping most of the loan fund worth P4 billion from the Agricultural Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (ACEF). ... -
Bangus production expected to recover this year
(BusinessWorld,March 23, 2010 , on page S1/6)Despite the threat posed by the raging dry spell caused by El Niño, bangus -- or milkfish -- output for this year is expected to grow by 4.6%-5.4%, a reversal from the 0.93% decline reported last year, officials of the ... -
Closer economics ties with Taiwan: Aquaculture
(BusinessWorld,August 17, 2022 , on page S1/6)Another sector in which closer ties between the Philippines and Taiwan will greatly benefit our attaining food security is that of aquaculture in which, with the appropriate investments from both the public and private ... -
DOST touts new areas for mussel-farming expansion
(BusinessWorld,January 11, 2018 , on page S1/8)The Government has identified 12 areas, mostly in the Visayas and Mindanao, deemed suitable for the development of a mussel farming industry. The Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research ... -
Fish farming to grow in next 20 years with demand for food
(BusinessWorld,July 1, 2010 , on page S1/8)Despite two decades of hardship, war and a loss of markets, Matko Jasprica has kept his Croatian fish farm alive and now hopes to start exporting sea bass and sea bream to the European Union. It’s just as well, because ... -
Fisheries output rises 2.64% in second quarter, aquaculture leads
(BusinessWorld,August 17, 2018 , on page S1/3)Fisheries output rose 2.64% year-on-year to 1.13 million metric tons (MT) in the second quarter, the Philippine Statistics Authority said. In its Fisheries Quarterly Performance Report for the three months to June, the PSA ... -
Gov't pressed to lift vannamei shrimp ban
(BusinessWorld,January 19, 2006 , on page S1/3)The fisheries Aquaculture board (FAB) seeks the government’s immediate lifting of the ban on the commercial culture of the vannamei shrimps as initial experimentation showed that it can be bred locally free of disease. In ... -
Little impact expected from recent fish kill
(BusinessWorld,June 2, 2011 , on page S1/4)The government is a keeping its 4% growth projection for fish production this year despite recent cases of fish kill in Pangasinan and the Taal Lake, saying that losses from those incidents were not enough to change its ... -
New BarotacViejo irrigation facility to be developed for tourism, aquaculture
(BusinessWorld,April 23, 2019 , on page S1/10)The newly-opened million Barotac Viejo Small Reservoir Irrigation Project (SRIP) will be further developed for aquaculture and farm-tourism. “Ten percent of the 50 square kilometers of the water reservoir will be allocated ... -
PEZA calls for agro-industrial, aquamarine ecozones on gov't land
(BusinessWorld,June 24, 2022 , on page SI/2)The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) said 12 million hectares of government land needs to be tapped for agro-industrial and aquamarine economic zones (ecozones), to address the looming food crisis. PEZA Director-General ... -
Seafood and aquaculture exports
(BusinessWorld,April 29, 2014 , on page S1/4)The Philippine marine and coastal waters are huge. The country has the second longest coastline in the tropical world, and fourth in the world (World Factbook). Is it doing very well in seafood and aquaculture exports? In ... -
Studies raise hope amid declining fish catch
(BusinessWorld,March 18, 1998 , on page 9)Meanwhile, Dan Baliao of the Iloilo-based Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center said recent studies in milkfish fry production showed an encouraging 95.5% to 99% survival rates in brackish water ponds for a culture ...