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Array ( [results] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 245176 [Title] => Mangkono: RPs hardest wood [Summary] => What is the hardest wood in the Philippines?
Asked this question, some instantaneously answer kamagong. Others volunteer molave or other forest tree species.
All are wrong.
The answer: mangkono (ever heard of it?)
Scientifically named Xanthostemon verdugonianus (Naves.), mangkono is regarded as "bakal na kahoy ng Pilipinas".
Consider: Cutting a mangkono tree trunk with a diameter of 70 centimeters with a saw usually takes two to four days!
[DatePublished] => 2004-04-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 233176 [Title] => Cavite farmers develop agroforestry system [Summary] => Call it folk technology.
A project of Silang (Cavite) farmers, it has been named 1:4 Pooc Agroforestry, a multi-storey cropping system. The system explains its name: 1 stands for one hectare and 4 for the number of crops simultaneously grown.
The technology was adjudged the Most Outstanding Agroforestry Practice (first prize) in the poster presentation contest at the First National Agroforestry Congress held last Nov. 19-20 at the Leyte State University (LSU) in Baybay, Leyte.
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 232441 [Title] => Why edible birds nest is as expensive as gold [Summary] => Have you ever wondered why the edible birds nest, the main ingredient of "nido soup," is almost as precious as gold?
Believe it or not, the whitish (considered Class A type) cup-shaped nest commands from P100,000 to P120,000 per kilogram in Manila. And its price can shoot up to as high as P400,000/kg in the international market.
This high market value can approximate that of gold, which is priced by weight in grams. Thus, the edible birds nest is sometimes dubbed "white gold".
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 225537 [Title] => Chicken feather: From waste to fertilizer [Summary] => JALAJALA, Rizal Poultry farms and entrepreneurs now need not worry on the disposal of the feathers of their dressed chickens.
A technology that can convert chicken feathers into organic liquid fertilizer has been developed by the Pililla Poultry Processing Plant, Inc. (PPPPI) in Pililla, Rizal.
It involves the treatment of the feathers with an enzyme-like product that liquefies not only the plumage but also the entire chicken carcasses.
[DatePublished] => 2003-10-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135335 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1661066 [AuthorName] => R & D NOTES By Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 200002 [Title] => Return of Manilas nilad mangrove not far off [Summary] => The time may not be long when "nilad", the mangrove species after which Manila was named, will again be part of the citys landscape.
And in adjacent shorelines like those in Cavite, too.
The basis for this optimistic outlook is the success of government researches in developing a technology for the vegetative propagation of "nilad" by rooting stem cuttings of the species.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 154995 [Title] => RP now among worlds top biodiversity hotspots [Summary] => LOS BAÑOS, Laguna "Let us work hard, let us work fast, and let us work effectively."
Thus, declared Undersecretary Demetrio Ignacio as he enjoined the countrys biodiversity experts and advocates to exert more effort in protecting and conserving what is left of the countrys once rich biodiversity resources.
The Philippines is considered to have one of the highest biodiversity concentrations in the world. Unfortunately, this biodiversity concentration is also among the most threatened in the world," warned the DENR official. [DatePublished] => 2002-03-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 83765 [Title] => EU to support 4 RP biodiversity research projects [Summary] => LOS BAÑOS, Laguna Four research projects on biodiversity will be conducted by three government agencies and one private entity with funding support from the European Union (EU).
The research grant contracts covering the projects were signed last July 12 at the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Quezon City.
[DatePublished] => 2001-07-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) ) )
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Array ( [results] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 245176 [Title] => Mangkono: RPs hardest wood [Summary] => What is the hardest wood in the Philippines?
Asked this question, some instantaneously answer kamagong. Others volunteer molave or other forest tree species.
All are wrong.
The answer: mangkono (ever heard of it?)
Scientifically named Xanthostemon verdugonianus (Naves.), mangkono is regarded as "bakal na kahoy ng Pilipinas".
Consider: Cutting a mangkono tree trunk with a diameter of 70 centimeters with a saw usually takes two to four days!
[DatePublished] => 2004-04-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 233176 [Title] => Cavite farmers develop agroforestry system [Summary] => Call it folk technology.
A project of Silang (Cavite) farmers, it has been named 1:4 Pooc Agroforestry, a multi-storey cropping system. The system explains its name: 1 stands for one hectare and 4 for the number of crops simultaneously grown.
The technology was adjudged the Most Outstanding Agroforestry Practice (first prize) in the poster presentation contest at the First National Agroforestry Congress held last Nov. 19-20 at the Leyte State University (LSU) in Baybay, Leyte.
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 232441 [Title] => Why edible birds nest is as expensive as gold [Summary] => Have you ever wondered why the edible birds nest, the main ingredient of "nido soup," is almost as precious as gold?
Believe it or not, the whitish (considered Class A type) cup-shaped nest commands from P100,000 to P120,000 per kilogram in Manila. And its price can shoot up to as high as P400,000/kg in the international market.
This high market value can approximate that of gold, which is priced by weight in grams. Thus, the edible birds nest is sometimes dubbed "white gold".
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 225537 [Title] => Chicken feather: From waste to fertilizer [Summary] => JALAJALA, Rizal Poultry farms and entrepreneurs now need not worry on the disposal of the feathers of their dressed chickens.
A technology that can convert chicken feathers into organic liquid fertilizer has been developed by the Pililla Poultry Processing Plant, Inc. (PPPPI) in Pililla, Rizal.
It involves the treatment of the feathers with an enzyme-like product that liquefies not only the plumage but also the entire chicken carcasses.
[DatePublished] => 2003-10-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135335 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1661066 [AuthorName] => R & D NOTES By Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 200002 [Title] => Return of Manilas nilad mangrove not far off [Summary] => The time may not be long when "nilad", the mangrove species after which Manila was named, will again be part of the citys landscape.
And in adjacent shorelines like those in Cavite, too.
The basis for this optimistic outlook is the success of government researches in developing a technology for the vegetative propagation of "nilad" by rooting stem cuttings of the species.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 154995 [Title] => RP now among worlds top biodiversity hotspots [Summary] => LOS BAÑOS, Laguna "Let us work hard, let us work fast, and let us work effectively."
Thus, declared Undersecretary Demetrio Ignacio as he enjoined the countrys biodiversity experts and advocates to exert more effort in protecting and conserving what is left of the countrys once rich biodiversity resources.
The Philippines is considered to have one of the highest biodiversity concentrations in the world. Unfortunately, this biodiversity concentration is also among the most threatened in the world," warned the DENR official. [DatePublished] => 2002-03-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 83765 [Title] => EU to support 4 RP biodiversity research projects [Summary] => LOS BAÑOS, Laguna Four research projects on biodiversity will be conducted by three government agencies and one private entity with funding support from the European Union (EU).
The research grant contracts covering the projects were signed last July 12 at the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Quezon City.
[DatePublished] => 2001-07-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) ) )
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