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                    [Summary] => Hoseki, a premier jewelry salon in the country, gave its clients an exclusive treat as it held a grand sale of its exquisite handcrafted pieces.
                    [DatePublished] => 2017-01-19 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Johnny Litton
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                    [Title] => An easier, more efficient way to raise fish in ponds
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The culture of prawns, crabs and milkfish or tilapia in fishponds entails so much capital, serious planning, focus, diligence and a lot of hard work.

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[DatePublished] => 2007-03-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1720837 [AuthorName] => Rose Dela Cruz [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 329402 [Title] => Organic tomatoes, the Exquisite way [Summary] => Tomatoes need not be fed with so much fertilizers and chemicals to make them look luscious and marketable. A recent study by the Philippine Council for Agricultural Resource Research and Development in UP Los Banos indicates that tomatoes grown without chemical fertilizers have better yields than the chemical-laden tomatoes.
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[DatePublished] => 2005-11-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1720791 [AuthorName] => Rose de la Cruz [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 299604 [Title] => Raising chickens with less antibiotics [Summary] => Eugene Chua tried being a contract grower for San Miguel for a year with 32,000 heads at his two "tunnelized" poultry buildings in Tanay, Rizal. Being a contract grower, he is duty-bound to abide by the feeding schedules and medication protocols set forth under his agreements with the integrator. This involves, as a standard operating procedure (SOP), feeding the birds with antibiotics from day one to "flush out toxins in the bird’s body," he said.
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Part of Gredonia’s duties "during off hours" is to maintain the state of aquariums and their live edible seafoods in saltwater to prevent contamination or poisoning. Only the arowana and tilapia are kept in aquariums of freshwater.
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But for the past two to three years, he noticed that mortality among his prawns at 1-1/2 to two months had been increasing and no one could explain why this phenomenon was happening to him and practically most prawn farmers in the country.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1720791 [AuthorName] => Rose de la Cruz [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 281308 [Title] => Probiotics good for prawn [Summary] => Quirino State College in Region 2 has "research" as one of its mandate. The college’s R&D conducts research in inland fisheries to generate technologies that would help the inland aquaculture industry in the province to develop and economically productive. Recently, it conducted a series of researches using Exquisite water and soil probiotics (Exquisite Soil Conditioner).
[DatePublished] => 2005-06-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1665308 [AuthorName] => Ramon Ma. Epino [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [ColumnID] => 136248
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1804795
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                    [ArticleID] => 495959
                    [Title] => An easier, more efficient way to raise fish in ponds
                    [Summary] => 

The culture of prawns, crabs and milkfish or tilapia in fishponds entails so much capital, serious planning, focus, diligence and a lot of hard work.

[DatePublished] => 2009-08-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1720791 [AuthorName] => Rose de la Cruz [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 886 [Title] => East Timor swears in interim PM before Ramos-Horta's inauguration as president [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2007-05-19 16:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 387750 [Title] => Saving typhoon-damaged coconut trees [Summary] => The massive destruction wrought by three successive super storms in the last quarter of 2006 left coconut farmers in Quezon, the Bicol Region, Samar and other parts of the country with no viable option but to cut down the old trees for coco lumber, which offer them immediate economic relief from their depressing state.
[DatePublished] => 2007-03-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1720837 [AuthorName] => Rose Dela Cruz [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 329402 [Title] => Organic tomatoes, the Exquisite way [Summary] => Tomatoes need not be fed with so much fertilizers and chemicals to make them look luscious and marketable. A recent study by the Philippine Council for Agricultural Resource Research and Development in UP Los Banos indicates that tomatoes grown without chemical fertilizers have better yields than the chemical-laden tomatoes.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1720837 [AuthorName] => Rose Dela Cruz [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 307595 [Title] => Hybrid rice can be grown using less chemicals [Summary] => Hybrid rice was developed by China several decades ago to feed its burgeoning population which by then had gone past one billion. It was also China that developed nitrogen-fixing organic fertilizer and soil conditioner called Exquisite BD that helped it save billions of dollars that would have otherwise been spent on chemical fertilizers and pesticides in propagating hybrid rice.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1720791 [AuthorName] => Rose de la Cruz [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 299604 [Title] => Raising chickens with less antibiotics [Summary] => Eugene Chua tried being a contract grower for San Miguel for a year with 32,000 heads at his two "tunnelized" poultry buildings in Tanay, Rizal. Being a contract grower, he is duty-bound to abide by the feeding schedules and medication protocols set forth under his agreements with the integrator. This involves, as a standard operating procedure (SOP), feeding the birds with antibiotics from day one to "flush out toxins in the bird’s body," he said.
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Part of Gredonia’s duties "during off hours" is to maintain the state of aquariums and their live edible seafoods in saltwater to prevent contamination or poisoning. Only the arowana and tilapia are kept in aquariums of freshwater.
[DatePublished] => 2005-09-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1720791 [AuthorName] => Rose de la Cruz [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 293799 [Title] => Prawn farming the organic way [Summary] => For eight years running, Dr. Ponciano Pontiveros (a dentist by profession), has been raising prawns, crabs and bangus in his nine-hectare multi-crop pond in Lubao, Pampanga using the traditional chemical starter feeds and growth enhancers.

But for the past two to three years, he noticed that mortality among his prawns at 1-1/2 to two months had been increasing and no one could explain why this phenomenon was happening to him and practically most prawn farmers in the country.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1720791 [AuthorName] => Rose de la Cruz [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 281308 [Title] => Probiotics good for prawn [Summary] => Quirino State College in Region 2 has "research" as one of its mandate. The college’s R&D conducts research in inland fisheries to generate technologies that would help the inland aquaculture industry in the province to develop and economically productive. Recently, it conducted a series of researches using Exquisite water and soil probiotics (Exquisite Soil Conditioner).
[DatePublished] => 2005-06-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1665308 [AuthorName] => Ramon Ma. Epino [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) ) )
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