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[Title] => El Niño won't significantly cut this year's Philippine corn ouput: official
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[Title] => DA allots P1.5 billion for lending
[Summary] => The Department of Agriculture (DA) is setting aside P1.5 billion from the P4.5-billion Agricultural Guarantee Fund Pool (AGFP) as emergency fund for crop damage resulting from the series of typhoons and the drought that is currently affecting the country.
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[Title] => Industrial users must show proof of sugar requirement
[Summary] => Industrial users who want to avail themselves of duty-free sugar imports must prove their volume requirement before the government agrees to allocate a portion to them, Agriculture Secretary Arthur C. Yap said yesterday.
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[Title] => Yap says agriculture sector managed to post slight growth last year
[Summary] => Agriculture Secretary Arthur C. Yap expressed confidence yesterday that the agriculture sector managed to post a slight growth last year in spite of the back-to-back devastation caused by typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng.
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[Title] => New hope emerges for local cotton industry
[Summary] => Agriculture officials are confident that the country’s adoption of the Bt cotton technology from China and India will help boost the local cotton industry and rev up Philippine agriculture in the next few years.
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[Title] => Yearender: Agriculture growth limited by typhoons, global economic crisis
[Summary] => Despite a higher budget of P47 billion – fourth biggest in this year’s national budget – growth in the agriculture sector almost ground to a halt as two devastating typhoons and the global economic meltdown took their toll on the sector.
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[Title] => RP sets crucial rice import talks with Thailand, Vietnam
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[Title] => RP has enough rice for 6 months
[Summary] => The National Food Authority (NFA) said yesterday that it has a total of 24 million bags of rice which will be sufficient for the next six months based on the agency’s average daily rice sales of 128,307 bags.
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[Title] => US asks RP to allow entry of bone meal, vegetables
[Summary] => The United States is asking the Philippines to allow the entry of more bone meal and US-grown vegetables. On the other hand, the Philippines is pressing the US to allow the entry of more Philippine bananas, mangoes and fresh asparagus into the US market.
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[Summary] => The Department of Agriculture (DA) is setting aside P1.5 billion from the P4.5-billion Agricultural Guarantee Fund Pool (AGFP) as emergency fund for crop damage resulting from the series of typhoons and the drought that is currently affecting the country.
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[Title] => Industrial users must show proof of sugar requirement
[Summary] => Industrial users who want to avail themselves of duty-free sugar imports must prove their volume requirement before the government agrees to allocate a portion to them, Agriculture Secretary Arthur C. Yap said yesterday.
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January 3, 2010 - 12:00am
