Agriculture Business Week

Three forms of Agricultural Publications aimed at helping agribusiness entrepreneurs have been released by the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and Development (PGARRD), based in Los Banos, Laguna.

These consist of seven PCARRD Investment Briefs, Profitability Analysis series on 10 selected commodities, and five Regional Farm Primers.

The PCARRD Investment Briefs series are titled as follows: (1) Invest in Goat Farming, (2) Invest in Three- or Four-Way Cross Slaughter Pig Production, (3) Invest in Lakatan Production, (4) Invest in Sinta Papaya Production, (5) Invest in Orchid Production, (6) Invest in Organic Pole Sitao, Squash and Tomato Production, and (7) Investment Opportunities in Agricultural Inputs.

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Posted on April 12th, 2009 under Fruits, Livestock, Special Report. Tags: Books, PCCARD, Publications. Comments: 1

Random thoughts on Rice, Science, Technology, etc. (insights from a non S&T insider) is a compilation of 24 selected column pieces written by Chat Garrido-Ocampo for the Mindanao Times, the leading and oldest newspaper in Mindanao, and published by the Tran Yan Kee Foundation, Inc. in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture.

The book breathes a fresh whiff of air in what most people consider as a “dull subject,” which is agriculture. Herein lays the main strength of the book: Clear and, at times, entertaining perspectives on agricultural science, with special focus on rice research, as readers with a modicum of scientific background meander across a broad range of topics written in a very laymanized style.

From her foreword, the author immediately takes her readers on a journey to the interesting world of rice that she came to learn (and is still learning), appreciate, and understand, by her own admission, in a “nervous pace.”

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Posted on February 6th, 2009 under Rice, SPOTlight, Technology. Tags: Books, Rice, Science, Technology. Comments: None