While coconut is one of the two agricultural commodities that earns the country more than a billion dollars in export revenues every year, its vast potential to earn even more has never been tapped because of numerous issues bugging the industry. The area currently planted to coconut is about 3.565 million hectares or 26 percent
Sarawak needs more young people to go into agriculture in order to sustain the industry, says Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Uggah Embas. He notes that most farmers iare aged 55 years and above. “Even though most farmers in rural areas are 55 or 60, some of them are able to make a monthly income from
The bird flu crisis is over, Philippine Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol said on Saturday, September 2, following his lifting of a 7-kilometer radius ban. In a Facebook post, Piñol said he was “lifting the quarantine restrictions in the 7-kilometer Controlled Area Radius around the town of San Luis, Pampanga and in Jaen and San Isidro towns in Nueva
The Indonesian Palm Oil Association (GAPKI) will attend an upcoming summit on the development of the oil palm sector at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Palm oil is Indonesia’s main non-oil and gas export, contributing US$18.5 billion in exports last year. The sector also absorbs more than 5 million workers and encourages economic growth in rural areas.
You are invited to attend the Agribusiness Executives’ Program (AEP) Special Lecture entitled “THE 3 CONTRASTING STRATEGIES: Food Security, Food Reliance and Food Sovereignty” by Dr. Paul Teng, Senior Adviser, Director’s Office, National Institute of Education of the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, on September 21, 2017, 10:00 am to 12:00 nn at Jade Function Room of Marco Polo Davao Hotel. Participation fee is
Thai Beverage Co Ltd have announced plans to buy almost half of the KFC stores in Thailand for 11.3 billion baht (PhP16 billion) The company – know locally as Thai Bev – revealed their plans to the Singapore stock exchange said Thai Rath. They plan to buy 240 KFC restaurants previously run by Yum Restaurants (Thailand), or P67
Asia and particularly South East Asia, have been the center of attention with regards to economic growth, buying power, culture and tradition, music and fashion, and even food. The concept of going back to tradition and embracing organic foods has become the new Zen that the world is looking for. Asian flavors are the new
Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) is the second most important farmed fish in the Philippines next to milkfish or “bangus.” Our country produces over 250,000 metric tons of tilapia from culture in freshwater ponds and lake cages every year. Per capita consumption of tilapia among Filipinos is 3 kg/yr compared to 2.5 kg/yr for milkfish and 1.6
by Dr. Rafael Guerrero III, PhD Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) is the second most important farmed fish in the Philippines next to milkfish or “bangus.” Our country produces over 250,000 metric tons of tilapia from culture in freshwater ponds and lake cages every year. Per capita consumption of tilapia among Filipinos is 3 kg/yr compared to 2.5 kg/yr for milkfish and 1.6 kg/yr for roundscad or
Vietnam earned US$1.56 billion from shrimp exports in the first half of 2017, up 15.7 percent annually, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors (VASEP). Of the figure, white leg shrimp export earnings were estimated at nearly 955 million USD, up 20.4 percent while tiger prawn export revenue hit 421 million USD,