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...

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...

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...

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...

Dupont's R&D centre to conduct crop research.
Byline: Subhendu Mukherjee WILMINGTON: DuPont's first research & development centre in India, which is due to open in Hyderabad early next year, will for the first time see basic research in areas like crop genetics head to an offshore centre. While critical research, so far,...

Introducing STARRDEC.
STARRDEC stands for Southern Tagalog Agriculture and Resources Research and Development Consortium. It is one of the 14 consortia in the country under the auspices of the Department of Science and Technology's Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry, and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCARRD). The consortium is...