Biotechnology research up on 4 crops.
Byline: MELODY M. AGUIBA A move that has long been due, the Department of Agriculture (DA) is carrying out biotechnology research projects for four major Philippine crops -- rice, coconut, papaya, and abaca -- that have huge potential for export growth and job generation. Agriculture...

Koreans, Aussies eye ethanol plant.
Byline: MELODY M. AGUIBA Koreans and Australians are tying up with local businesses to put up a sweet sorghum ethanol plant in Northern Luzon worth $ 20 million to $ 40 million even as this feedstock is stirring up interest in the US, Africa, and Latin America....

Funding cuts mean big losses for OSU.
Byline: Greg Bolt The Register-Guard Efforts to control federal spending are hitting Oregon State University with a budgetary double whammy that could knock a hole in its research budget and cripple its statewide extension service. OSU faces the loss of up to $4 million if...

Commercialization of start-up agricultural biotechnologies pushed.
Byline: MELODY M. AGUIBA The Philippines has sufficient laws such as the Intellectual Property (IP) Code and the Magna Carta for Science and Technology Workers (MCST) to back up commercialization of startup technologies, but government has to codify these to encourage extensive patenting and licensing for these...

Channel one and effectiveness of media literacy.
Abstract A field experiment (N=239) with randomized assignment of 15 seventh- and eighth-grade classes to one of three media literacy lesson conditions (logic, affect-added and control) and random mixing of classes to the extent possible was used to evaluate a media literacy lesson. The findings of this...

Promotion of indigenous vegetables launched by DA.
Byline: RESTITUTO A. CAYUBIT TACLOBAN CITY -- The regional Department of Agriculture (DA) here conducted the Indigenous Vegetables Project Field Day and Performance Evaluation at the Eastern Visayas Integrated Agricultural Research Center (EVIARC), Barangay Bagong Silang, Babatngon, Leyte to promote nutrition. Agriculture Regional Director Leo...

RP seen self-sufficient in corn by 2007.
Byline: MELODY M. AGUIBA The Philippines may stop importing corn next year as it hits corn production at a self-sufficiency level of 6.1 million metric tons (MT) owing to hybrid corn expansion and government's investment on post harvest facilities. Ric Pinca, Philippine Association of Feed...

China Bank to invest in agri projects.
Byline: MELODY M. AGUIBA State-run China Development Bank (CDB), apparently bigger than multilateral funders World Bank (WB) and Asian Development Bank (ADB), eyes a A[yen]30-billion investment in Philippine agriculture to aid China's effort to boost renewable resource supply. Agriculture Secretary Arthur C. Yap told a...

A combining ability analysis of cassava manihot esculenta Crantz genotypes to anthracnose disease.
INTRODUCTION The tropical root crop cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is the third most important source of calories for human food in the tropics after rice and maize. Over 600 million people depend on cassava in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Cassava is grown by poor farmers, many...

The effects of briquetting pressure on banana-peel briquette and the banana waste in Northern Thailand.
INTRODUCTION For most developing countries, it appears that biomass, particularly agricultural wastes, has become one of their most promising energy sources. The idea of utilizing the residues from agricultural sectors as primary or secondary energy sources is somewhat attractive sine they are available as free, indigenous and...