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Is wood-starved RP getting the message

by by Juan L. Mercado - May 2, 2001 - 12:00am

KUCHING, Sarawak Ã¢â‚¬â€œ Can you cut trees without destroying already severely depleted forests? In the Philippines, Senate President Aquilino Pimentel and Environment...

Chinese rice hybrids to boost RP yields

by by Juan L. Mercado - May 28, 2000 - 12:00am

Honed to state-of-the-art by China, hybrid technology could jack up rice harvests, by a badly-needed 68 million metric tons in six Asian countries, where emerging shortages in land and water interlock with a...

'Soft' rice prices to remain, says FAO

by by Juan L. Mercado - March 19, 2000 - 12:00am

Rice prices for the first half of this year will remain "soft" due to larger harvests, plus a two-million ton increase in global stocks, as benign post-La Nina Weather boosted production. The Philippines, in...

Food demand re-ignites look into integrated farm systems

by by Juan L. Mercado - March 5, 2000 - 12:00am

The 2,400-year-old Chinese innovation of integrating fish, livestock and crop farming is sparking new interest as demand for more and better-quality food from larger populations shoves up prices -- and stokes...

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