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		<title>VEGEGROW: The Benefits of Using Liquid Seaweed Fertilizer</title>
		<link>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/vegegrow-the-benefits-of-using-liquid-seaweed-fertilizer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Organic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vegetables]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fertilizer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vegegrow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Veggies]]></category>

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Among the many available fertilizers now in the market, liquid seaweed extract belongs to the most beneficial. This is because it is not only a plant food, but it effectively works as a biostimulant and a soil conditioner as well. Yet, many farmers still do not realize it. Although proven valuable as fertilizer, this product [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Bold Step For BIOMIN Aquaculture</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Aquaculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sponsorship of a keynote session at Aquaculture 2010 confirms BIOMIN’s firm commitment and keen focus on this dynamic growth sector.
February 04, 2010 – BIOMIN embraces the new year with a bold plunge in aquaculture. For the first time, BIOMIN will be partnering the World Aquaculture Society (WAS) with the sponsorship of the Aquafeeds session at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Educator Does His Own Brand of Farming</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lanzones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Longkong]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[He is a busy operator of a technical education institution with 12 branches in Metro Manila and in the provinces. You would think he has no time for farming but because he grew up in a farm, he could not help but do his own brand of farming, and not just hobby farming at that.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Bean Variety Creating Waves</title>
		<link>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/new-bean-variety-creating-waves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Crops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[High-Yield]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This high-yielding bean is fast shooting to “stardom” in the vegetable world.
Named Condor Negrostar, this long bean variety was bred and developed by Allied Botanical Corp. (ABC) at its research facility in this Pangasinan town situated almost 200 kilometers northeast of Manila.
“The uniquely purple-tipped pod variety is very prolific and very ideal for off-season planting, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brown Rice Better Than White Rice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brown Rice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White Rice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many housewives still prefer the white or well-polished rice than the other kind of rice. To them, white rice, no matter what it costs, is still the best. This is so because white rice is more appetizing to eat.
But what they do not know is that while second-class milled rice or brown rice is less [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philippines Investment Opportunity: The Pili Nut</title>
		<link>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/philippines-investment-opportunity-the-pili-nut/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/philippines-investment-opportunity-the-pili-nut/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Forest Trees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Other Crops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pili]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Investing in Philippine pili nut trees might be an overlooked opportunity due to the lack of media exposure.
Philippines &#8211; February 1, 2010 &#8211; &#8220;One of the best Philippines investments might be the organic farms growing pili nuts; pili trees can give a harvest for up to 100 years&#8221; according to Will Irwin who is currently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pig, Poultry &amp; Dairy Focus Asia 2010</title>
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		<comments>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/pig-poultry-dairy-focus-asia-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Livestock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poultry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bangkok]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dairy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thailand]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With good early bookings, all the signs are that there will be another well attended Pig, Poultry &#38; Dairy Focus Asia 2010. This event is now perceived as Asia ’s leading independent technical conference for anyone involved in modern pig, poultry and dairy production and attracts production managers, QA managers, nutritionists and veterinarians. The event [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RP Mango Named By Guinness As World&#8217;s Heaviest</title>
		<link>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/rp-mango-named-by-guinness-as-worlds-heaviest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/rp-mango-named-by-guinness-as-worlds-heaviest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fruits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guinness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mango]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The largest mango which won the “Pinaka” contest in the SUNDAYAG 2009 in Cagayan de Oro last year has been confirmed by the Guinness World Records (GWR) as the heaviest mango in the world, breaking the previous record held by an entry from Hawaii.
The mango weighs 3.5 kilos with a length of 30 cms. and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Seed Company On Its 25th Year</title>
		<link>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/a-seed-company-on-its-25th-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/a-seed-company-on-its-25th-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Crops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Special Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seeds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sweet Sorghum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What started as a seed company focused on breeding sorghum some 25 years ago has now become a major player in the seed industry as it has diversified into many other high-value crops, especially tropical vegetables.
This is the Allied Botanical Corporation organized by a then youthful business-minded guy named Willy Co who believed in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farmer Upholds Reputation Of Family For Quality Coffee</title>
		<link>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/farmer-upholds-reputation-of-family-for-quality-coffee/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/farmer-upholds-reputation-of-family-for-quality-coffee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coffee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nestle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike other coffee farmers Jolan Lamoste painstakingly sorts sacks of first pick green coffee beans (GCB) for defects before selling them to Nestlé, the makers of Nescafe. Lamoste has a good reputation to protect – his father was a longtime supplier of Nestlé. He not only inherited his parents’ livelihood but also their sense of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money Is Not Everything</title>
		<link>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/money-is-not-everything/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/money-is-not-everything/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We were just talking a few minutes ago over lunch with a lady who consulted us on how to go about developing her dream farm a year ago. She is a daughter of a former mayor who left behind several hectares of upland farms that have not been made productive for so many years. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Processor Needs More Supply Of Ubi</title>
		<link>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/processor-needs-more-supply-of-ubi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/processor-needs-more-supply-of-ubi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Crops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ubi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yam]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agribusinessweek.com/?p=1616</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A manufacturer of sweet preserves is in need of additional supply of ubi tubers due to the increasing demand for high quality ubi jam and puree that it supplies to major bakeshops and food chains.
Engr. Crispin Muyrong, vice president of Sunlight Food Corporation situated in Marikina City said that the company will require a minimum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microbes Inside Rootcrops May Cure Ubi Anthracnose</title>
		<link>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/microbes-inside-rootcrops-may-cure-ubi-anthracnose/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/microbes-inside-rootcrops-may-cure-ubi-anthracnose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Crops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rootc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ubi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at the Philippine Rootcrop Research and Training Center (PhilRootcrops) of the Visayas State University (VSU) in Baybay, Leyte have unveiled what could become the next potential biological control for anthracnose in ubi and other plant diseases.
Julie D. Tan, Evelyn B. Taboada, May V. Tampus, Jilly B. Regis and Rodney H. Perez have isolated and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What To Plant During El Niño</title>
		<link>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/what-to-plant-during-el-nino/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/what-to-plant-during-el-nino/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[El Nino]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now that El Niño is here with us, what are the crops that we should plant? Of course, this is an unusual El Niño because in some places there are sporadic light rains. Nevertheless, our weather experts tell us that the El Niño will probably last up to June.
Of course don’t be intimidated into not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crop Processing Machine Is Most Outstanding Invention</title>
		<link>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/crop-processing-machine-is-most-outstanding-invention/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/crop-processing-machine-is-most-outstanding-invention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A multi-purpose processing machine that performs the functions of a crusher, juice extractor and a mill garnered the Most Outstanding Invention (Tuklas Award) and the WIPO Gold Medal and Certificate Award during the 2009 National Invention Contest awarding ceremonies held at the Philippine Trade Training Center in Pasay City.
The research team, which is based in [...]]]></description>
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