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abtest

DA mulls large-scale use of carrageenan fertilizer

By Rainier Allan Ronda | December 12, 2015 - 9:00am

The Department of Agriculture (DA) may be the first large-scale adaptor of the breakthrough bio-fertilizer developed by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) that can boost rice production by as much as...

Agriculture

Seaweed safe for human consumption

By Mitchelle L. Palaubsanon | April 17, 2013 - 12:00am

The Seaweed Industry of the Philippines, Inc. disputed the claim of a medical scientist that carrageenan can cause cancer and unsafe for human consumption.

Cebu News

Wee MIT graduation speaker

April 7, 2011 - 12:00am

Lee Hiong T. Wee addressed the graduates during the 145th Commencement exercises of the Mapua Institute of Technology.

Education and Home

Seaweed industry forex volatility dampens recovery hopes

By Ehda Dagooc | December 22, 2010 - 12:00am

True to its projection early in 2010, the seaweed exports in the Philippines were able to seize the recovering consumption market in the United States, and almost hit the 2008 level of export volume.

Freeman Cebu Business

Seaweed industry takes up woes with DA chief

By Ehda Dagooc | August 18, 2010 - 12:00am

Officials of the Seaweed Industry Association of the Philippines (SIAP) will meet today with Department of Agriculture (DA) secretary Proceso J. Alcala at the Cebu Country Club to discuss probable solutions to problems...

Freeman Cebu Business

Seaweed producers project zero growth in three years

By Ehda Dagooc | August 3, 2010 - 12:00am

Seaweed producing countries, of which the Philippines is one, now project a zero growth rate in the next three years due to the lingering effects of the global economic crisis made worst by the substitution of...

Freeman Cebu Business

Volatile seaweed prices imperil 500 thousand jobs

By Ehda Dagooc | March 16, 2010 - 12:00am

Aside from the unfavorable effects of the El Niño phenomenon to the seaweed industry in the Philippines, the erratic changes in the pricing of seaweed products are driving away investors putting at risk the...

Freeman Cebu Business

UN names RP as world's top processed seaweed producer

By Ehda Dagooc | December 1, 2009 - 12:00am

Despite the series of calamities that hit the country coupled with infertility issues hounding seaweed farms, the United Nations still consider the Philippines as the number one processed seaweed producer in the...

Freeman Cebu Business

Demand for carrageenan-based capsules waning

November 21, 2009 - 12:00am

Unless the market demands for health-friendly capsule coating for medicines, the carrageenan industry in the Philippines could lose this potential market that have filled up the declining orders.

Freeman Cebu Business

SIAP: Global seaweed demand to drop by 50%

By Ehda Dagooc | February 7, 2009 - 12:00am

The seaweed industry in the Philippines is seeing at least 50 percent drop in global market demand in the next two years, describing this period as the "worst" crisis ever faced by the industry players...

Freeman Cebu Business