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                    [Title] => New camote variety good for making puto
                    [Summary] => LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – There’s a new high-yielding sweetpotato variety.


Named BSU SP2 "Bengueta," it was developed by the Benguet State University-Northern Philippines Root Crop Research and Training Center (BSU-NPRCRTC) in this capital town.

The new variety was approved for commercialization late last year by the National Seed Industry Council (NSIC), Dr. Leoncia L. Tandang, immediate past director of the BSU-based Highland Agriculture and Resources Research and Development Consortium (HARRDEC), told this writer here.
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It’s because water hyacinth, the world’s most "invasive" aquatic plant, has a very efficient method of reproduction, as found in scientific studies across the globe.

Consider: One water hyacinth plant can produce 5,000-6,000 seeds per season and remain viable up to 15 years. A single plant can produce 797,160 daughter plants in three months.
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                    [Summary] => LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – There’s a new high-yielding sweetpotato variety.


Named BSU SP2 "Bengueta," it was developed by the Benguet State University-Northern Philippines Root Crop Research and Training Center (BSU-NPRCRTC) in this capital town.

The new variety was approved for commercialization late last year by the National Seed Industry Council (NSIC), Dr. Leoncia L. Tandang, immediate past director of the BSU-based Highland Agriculture and Resources Research and Development Consortium (HARRDEC), told this writer here.
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It’s because water hyacinth, the world’s most "invasive" aquatic plant, has a very efficient method of reproduction, as found in scientific studies across the globe.

Consider: One water hyacinth plant can produce 5,000-6,000 seeds per season and remain viable up to 15 years. A single plant can produce 797,160 daughter plants in three months.
[DatePublished] => 2004-01-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) ) )
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