Fingerlings of the silver perch have been cultured by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources headed by Malcolm Sarmiento, Jr. and are being distributed at P5 a piece for growing – to an average half a kilo each – for home consumption as well as for restaurants.
You see, MWC president Antonino Aquino has already purchased seven trucks – which will be doubled by the end of the year – to siphon off the sewage build-up in the pozo Negro or sewage cisterns of homes.
The way Tony Aquino sees it, MWC is not in the business of just providing water; it is also in the sewage treatment business.
Consider this. Chicken nuggets, which commercially sell for more than P6 apiece, can be produced at P3 apiece and sold at P6 or less, depending on the competition.
Consider this. A kilo of pork can be processed into a kilo-and-a-half of tocino and priced accordingly. The same kilo of pork can be ground to produced 120 pieces of siomai, which can be sold at P10 for three pieces.
Like the branded products, Lulu Rivera‘s recipes use food-grade extenders based on soybean, bamboo, and corn, which she discovered during her 41-year stint with BAI.
You see, Boy Edeza stays mum about his irrevocable resignation letter dated June 15 submitted to Finance Secretary Juanita Amatong even as executives at Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. have been talking about Mr. Edeza’s joining the group come July 15.
Mr. Edeza will head the treasury department of the RCBC group a position he also held at Metropolitan Bank and Trust Co. before he rejoined government, first as National Treasurer and, after the resignation of his friend, the Finance Secretary Jose Isidro Camacho, as Tidcorp head.