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		<title>Seaweed : Rich Food From The Sea</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 01:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aquaculture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Philippines, with a total coastline of 36,289 kilometers, has marine resources that provide food to millions of Filipinos. These resources include seaweeds, marine plants that grow abundantly in shallow reef flats and in lagoons with a water depth of less than two meters at high tide. Globally there are over 9,000 species of seaweed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fisheries of Batanes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 00:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aquaculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Batanes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fish]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Batanes is the country&#8217;s northernmost and smallest province. Composed of eight islands, it has a land area of 20,928 hectares, marine waters of 4,500 square kilometers, and a population of about 17,000. The main economic activities of its people, called Ivatans, are agriculture and fishing. In a 2010 survey conducted by the Bureau of Fisheries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mayor Advocates Organic Farming</title>
		<link>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/mayor-advocates-organic-farming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Organic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One municipal head who is really serious about propagating organic farming in his town is Mayor Leoncio &#8220;Jun&#8221; Evasco of Maribojoc, Bohol. We met him at an organic agriculture presentation at the Natural Farming Institute in Panabo City last March 19. The presentation was attended by the head of the Agricultural Training Institute, officials of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Unseen Scourge Of Farmers (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/the-unseen-scourge-of-farmers-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/the-unseen-scourge-of-farmers-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farmer]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agribusinessweek.com/?p=2463</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You would think that 2005 Davao del Sur Outstanding Farmer, 2006 Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry, and Natural Resources Research and Development Magsasakang Siyentista, 2008-Department of Agriculture (DA) Outstanding Farmer, 2009 Micro-Entrepreneur of the Year, and DA Outstanding Farmer in the Organic Farming Category multi-awardee Benjamin &#8220;Ben&#8221; R Lao would fear nothing when it comes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surigao Women Produce Nipa Shingles To Augment Income</title>
		<link>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/surigao-women-produce-nipa-shingles-to-augment-income/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/surigao-women-produce-nipa-shingles-to-augment-income/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 02:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Plant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nipa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shingles]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agribusinessweek.com/?p=2460</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Brgy Villafranca Gigaquit, Surigao del Norte — When the women of this barangay were looking for ways to augment their husbands&#8217; earnings, they hit on the idea of using their village&#8217;s foremost resource: nipa. &#8220;Nipa (Nypa fruticans) is a mangrove palm that thrives in coastal areas like Gigaquit. The plant offers numerous benefits, whether as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sprouts : Health Boosting, Quick, And Easy-To-Grow Veggies</title>
		<link>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/sprouts-health-boosting-quick-and-easy-to-grow-veggies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/sprouts-health-boosting-quick-and-easy-to-grow-veggies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 02:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Organic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sprouts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[togue]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agribusinessweek.com/?p=2457</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a relatively cheap, highly palatable food crop that can be easily grown in very limited space any time of the year in any weather without soil, sunlight, fertilizer, or pesticide. It&#8217;s harvestable in only three to seven days, and contains abundant quantities of natural vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and protein. No, it&#8217;s not a fantasy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Being Done About Fusarium Wilt</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fruits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Special Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SPOTlight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Banana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cavendish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fusarium]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agribusinessweek.com/?p=2452</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the outbreak of Fusarium wilt or Panama disease, which is affecting some Cavendish banana plantations in Mindanao, government agencies that have to do with agriculture are mobilizing their resources to help address the problem. Large amounts of funds have been announced to have been allocated by government agencies to be used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seaweed Industry Gets Big Boost</title>
		<link>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/seaweed-industry-gets-big-boost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 02:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aquaculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seaweeds]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agribusinessweek.com/?p=2449</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our good friend Max Ricohermoso is all smiles these days. The reason is that the industry he loves most got its biggest ever budget from the Department of Agriculture in 2013. Ricohermoso, of course, is the chairman of the Seaweed Industry Association of the Philippines. The DA allocated a total of P265 million for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paraoakan Chicken Dispersal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 02:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Livestock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicken]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paraoakan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agribusinessweek.com/?p=2447</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Paraoakan is becoming the choice of native chicken raisers. And it is for a number of good reasons. Paraoakan, of course, is the native chicken from Palawan. Of the several strains of native chickens, Paraoakan is the biggest of them all. It has long legs, bigger body than the rest, long neck and bigger head. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PhilRice To Host Patent Library That Will Help Many Researchers</title>
		<link>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/philrice-to-host-patent-library-that-will-help-many-researchers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/philrice-to-host-patent-library-that-will-help-many-researchers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 02:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Special Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PhilRice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Research]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agribusinessweek.com/?p=2444</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Philippines Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) will host a patent library to encourage more innovation in rice science and development following a memorandum of agreement (MOA) it recently signed with the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IP Philippines) Also called Innovation and Technology Support Office (ITSO), the patent library aims to educate researchers on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nuclear Techniques Increase Farm Profits</title>
		<link>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/nuclear-techniques-increase-farm-profits/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/nuclear-techniques-increase-farm-profits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 02:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Special Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nuclear applications can benefit agriculture by reducing water and nutrient losses by almost 25 percent without adversely affecting the overall yield of rice and corn, the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (PNRI) said. The use of nuclear analytical techniques, which is a major component of Smart Farming-based Nutrient and Water Management (NWM) program for rice and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soils Mapping Is Very Important</title>
		<link>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/soils-mapping-is-very-important/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/soils-mapping-is-very-important/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 23:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Organic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mapping]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently we had the good fortune of joining a dinner with Dr. William Dar, the director general of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Hyderabad, India. The dinner was tendered by our friend Toto Barcelona of Harbest Agribusiness which was attended by agri-people like Dr. Rolly Dy of the University [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Tipping Point&#8221; Concept of Pig Disease</title>
		<link>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/tipping-point-concept-of-pig-disease/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/tipping-point-concept-of-pig-disease/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Livestock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pig]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agribusinessweek.com/?p=2433</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a saying, &#8220;when a butterfly flaps its wings in one place, a tsunami may occur in another place.&#8221; This is obviously an exaggeration, but the point is that small things can have great effects. This is the essence of the &#8220;tipping point.&#8221; The concept of tipping points has major impact on understanding swine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Cuenca : Getting Ahead</title>
		<link>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/bob-cuenca-getting-ahead/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/bob-cuenca-getting-ahead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Livestock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fowl]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Being a Negrese, Roberto &#8220;Bob&#8221; Cuenca has all his life been involved in traditional agricultural practices of the province—growing sugarcane and breeding fighting cocks in Guintubdan, La Carlota City. He was first to discover the potential of Sitio Hagdan, Brgy. Mailum, Bago City, southern Negros Occidental for game fowls and so about six years ago, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corn Farmers Continue to Succeed Despite soaring price of farm inputs</title>
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		<comments>http://www.agribusinessweek.com/corn-farmers-continue-to-succeed-despite-soaring-price-of-farm-inputs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 15:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ACB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Efren Sarto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gawad Saka Award]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jet Parma]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Corn grain price fluctuations during the peak harvest in Mindanao has dampened the spirits as well as the livelihood of many Filipino farmers. This sad development in the corn sector is aggravated by the unabated soaring cost of farm inputs, such as fertilizers. Efren Sarto, a corn farmer from South Cotabato, in the midst of [...]]]></description>
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