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    • BFAR and Landbank partner for program to aid fisherfolk 

      (BusinessWorld, March 11, 2010, on page S1/6)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) and state-owned Land Bank of the Philippines have partnered to come up with a livelihood program meant to help fisherfolk. The Agriculture department said in a statement ...
    • Davao Oriental community takes up organic fish farming 

      Carillo, Carmencita A. (BusinessWorld, December 3, 2015, on page S1/5)
      Husband and wife Amancio and Naomi Dimpas of Barangay Caganganan in Banaybanay, Davao Oriental, who have been fish farming since 1987, are leading the way in organic aquaculture in their community. It was in May 2014 that ...
    • Fishpond fertilizer 

      (BusinessWorld, April 15, 2013, on page S1/2)
      The National Tobacco Administration (NTA) wants tobacco companies to sell to it their tobacco sweepings, which it will use to produce fishpond fertilizer. According to Memorandum Circular No. 001 Series of 2013 dated Feb. ...
    • Prawn sandwich destroys fish nurseries: expert 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (BusinessWorld, April 11, 2008, on page S1/11)
      She helped turn many of the world's prawn farmers into millionaires, but Jurgenne Primavera now worries that her life's work might have indirectly accelerated the destruction of fish nurseries. The Filipina zoologist, whose ...
    • Reviving Visayas agriculture and fishery ( a Marshall Plan?) 

      Dy, Rolando (BusinessWorld, January 7, 2014, on page S1/4-S1/5)
      First, small-scale fishing needs to be brought back to its feet quickly. According to a University of Asia and the Pacific study, there were about 3,350 motorized boats and 975 non-motorized boats in 2008 in Guiuan, Eastern ...