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The color red seems to catch even the fancy of fish consumers. The red sea bream, red snapper, and grouper all command good market but are highly priced.

“The potential of biotechnology to increase agricultural productivity is one of the reasons why at DOST, we believe it is a cause worth pursuing”.

Best practice. Wilting of the freshly cut cassava leaves to reduce hydrocyanic acid content.Cassava (Manihot esculenta) has a positive effect on milk yield, researches show.

The jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophylus Lam.)BAYBAY, Leyte ─ A one-day meeting to develop roll-out plans for jackfruit research and development (R&D) projects was recently held at the Visayas State University (VSU).

Mr. Andre Leu, Pres. of IFOAM (center) with the counterparts from Korea and Japan.MALVAR, Batangas ─ A 28-bed guesthouse and rotary mobile bio-composter at the Villegas Organic Farm and Hobby Complex in San Pedro 1 in this town was recently launched.

Book giving. Rene Almeda (left) of AGF receives a copy from Dr. Edwin C. Villar of PCAARRD.The Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCAARRD) launched the revised edition of “Profitability analysis: 25-doe level slaughter goat production” in the 2012 Agrilink held recently at the World Trade Center in Pasay City.


Tawi-Tawi — The Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCAARRD) and its partners from 14 higher education institutions (HEIs) all over the country will converge here to review and evaluate the accomplishments of the National Sea Cucumber R&D Program.

Dr. Edwin C. Villar, Director  presents  PCAARRD's Industry Strategic Plan for Goat.“The ISPs describe the targets for each industry and pinpoint the aspects of the industry where S&T will make a difference”.

PCAARRD Executive Director Patricio S. Faylon (center), Dr. Les Baxter of ACIAR (left), and CRD Director Jocelyn E. Eusebio (right) give their comments during the workshop.The Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCAARRD) and Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) drew out improvements for the fruits and vegetables value chain programs in a workshop held recently.

Event co-sponsor and minor sponsors.The Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCAARRD) will celebrate its partnership with the print, broadcast, and electronic media in a fete that will be held on December 6, 2012 at the Shangri-La Restaurant, No. 4 Times St., West Triangle, Quezon City.

Dr. Rikka Rajalahti of the World Bank welcomes participants to the 3rd GFRAS Annual Meeting.The Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCAARRD) co-sponsored the recent  3rd Global Forum on Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS) and 1st Asia Pacific Islands Rural Advisory Services (APIRAS) annual meetings held at the Heritage Hotel Manila in Pasay City.

Webminar. Wyn Ellis of the Chulalongkorn University lectures via Skype.The concept of Innovation for Inclusive Development (IID) in Agriculture, Aquatic, and Natural Resources was shared to the Industry Strategic Plan (ISP) champions of the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCAARRD) in a seminar held recently at the Council’s Headquarters.

PCAARRD Executive Director Patricio S. Faylon (fifth from right) hands over TGP Program documents to Dr. Asterio P. Saliot, Director of DA-ATI.  With them are ATI’s Regional Training Center directors, PCAARRDs’ consortium directors, and MS.The Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCAARRD) has formally turned over the Techno Gabay Program’s (TGP) Farmers Information and Technology Service (FITS) and Magsasaka-Siyentista (MS) components to the Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Training Institute (DA-ATI) in a ceremony held recently at the Asian Institute of Management Conference Center in Makati City.

Courtesy of DA-RFU IV-BLocal researches on the use of cassava as feed ingredient have been adequately conducted even way back in the 70s and 80s. However, the livestock industry has not maximized the potential promise of the feed ingredient as partial replacement to corn for energy.

Linkages between and among fellows and trainees of the South Korea-based Rural Development Administration (RDA) will be strengthened and rekindled with the holding of the Philippine-Rural Development Administration Alumni Association’s (PhilRAA) fourth convention slated on January 24─25 at the Traders Hotel in Pasay City.