Browsing The Philippine Star by Subject "carrageenins"

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    • 6 agencies ink pact to boost dev't of seaweed industry 

      Fernandez, Rudy A. (The Philippine Star, September 14, 2007, on page C3)
      A Southeast Asian center based here and five government and private institutions and agencies have joined hands to help arrest the decline of the local seaweed industry. A memorandum of understanding (MOU) along this line ...

    • Agri trade deficit narrows 60% in 9 mos 

      Valencia, Czeriza (The Philippine Star, January 20, 2014, on page B-16)
      The country's agriculture trade deficit narrowed by 60.47 percent in the first nine months of 2013 as export revenues registered double-digit growth and import expenditure decreased. Export earnings for the following farm, ...

    • Carrageenan as fertilizer? Test yield positive results 

      Lazaro, Ramon Efren (The Philippine Star, November 22, 2015, on page B4)
      Rice field trials on the use of a carrageenan plant growth regulator (CPGR) in Brgy. Balatong have increased crop harvest by more than 65 percent. The trial was conducted by a team led by Dr. Gil Magsino of the National ...

    • Carrageenan research team wins award 

      Ronda, Rainer Allan (The Philippine Star, October 5, 2017, on page B6)
      A research team from the Department of Science and Technology – Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (DOST-PNRI) that developed a highly efficient carrageenan plant growth promoter was conferred the 2017 Excellent Research ...

    • 'Code of Practice' urged for seaweed industry 

      Fernandez, Rudy A. (The Philippine Star, November 11, 2001, on page 24)
      "Code of Practice" for the local seaweed industry should be formulated to minimize industry mal-practices and sustain its vantage position in the international market. This was the consensus arrived at by participants in ...

    • Guimaras seaweed growers to hike output 

      Valencia, Czeriza (The Philippine Star, February 11, 2015, on page B-4)
      Seaweed growers in Guimaras Island are increasing production through a counterpart-funding scheme with the World-Bank supported Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP), the Department of Agriculture (DA) said yesterday. ...

    • Large drop in RP seaweed output seen 

      Go, Marianne V. (The Philippine Star, March 11, 2010, on page B-10)
      Philippine seaweed production is expected to drop by 28.6 percent to 50,000 metric tons from last year’s 70,000 MT due to the prevailing El Niño weather phenomenon, driving up further the price of seaweeds and exerting ...

    • New products, technologies ready for commercialization 

      Fernandez, Rudy A. (The Philippine Star, August 19, 2007, on page B-2)
      Live feed substitutes that suit the nutritional needs of shrimp and fish larvae, known as Kappa-Carrageenan Microbound Diet, has been formulated by the government-hosted Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture ...

    • Scientists turn to biotech to save ailing seaweed industry 

      Felix, Rocel (The Philippine Star, July 5, 2006, on page B-7)
      The export-oriented seaweed industry may soon get relief from the anticipated breakthrough in biotechnology researches that would eliminate the menacing "ice-ice" disease spreading in seaweed farms nationwide. "By next ...

    • SEAFDEC AQD develops new seaweed strain 

      Fernandez, Rudy A. (The Philippine Star, May 25, 2003, on page B-7)
      A new strain of seaweed has been developed. The improved strain of Eucheuma denticulatum, developed by the Tigbauan, Iloilo-based Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC AQD), grows ...

    • Seaweed industry looks to China for expansion 

      (The Philippine Star, November 3, 2002, on page B-3)
      Members of the Seaweed Industry, Association of the Philippines (SIAP)hope to expand their market for carrageenan products ( a eucheuma-based food additive) in China after the creation of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area ...

    • Zamboanga puts up 1st seaweed gene bank, nursery 

      Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) Program (The Philippine Star, April 1, 2007, on page B-5)
      Seaweed farmers in Western Mindanao will soon have a regular source of quality seedlings because of the establishment of a seaweed gene bank and nursery at the Rio Hondo campus of the Zamboanga State College of Marine ...

    • Zamboanga stakes claim as RP’s top seaweed producer 

      (The Philippine Star, March 23, 2008, on page C-6-C-7)
      In the face of declining seaweed harvests in the country’s traditional major seaweed production centers, the regional office of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in Region IX has taken bold steps to ...