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                    [Title] => Biotech crops' global value reaches $7.5 billion
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The global market value of biotechnology crops reached $7.5 billion in 2008, up from $6.9 billion in 2007.

[DatePublished] => 2009-04-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 440052 [Title] => RP maintains standing in world biotech league [Summary] =>

MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines has maintained its standing in the league of “biotechnology mega-countries.”

[DatePublished] => 2009-02-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 321303 [Title] => Bt crop global market passes $5-B mark [Summary] => The global market value of biotechnology crops hit the $5.25- billion mark in 2005, registering a significant increase of more than half a billion dollars over that of the previous year.

The $5.25 billion represented 15 percent of the $34 billion global crop protection market last year and 18 percent of the $30 billion 2005 global commercial seed market, reported the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA).
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 302079 [Title] => Eggplant now RP’s top vegetable crop — UPLB [Summary] => Time was when eggplant was just an ordinary vegetable crop.

The common notion then, too, was that it had low nutritional value.

Now, it is the country’s number one vegetable in terms of volume of production (about 179,000 tons per year valued at almost P2 billion) and hectares (some 20,000 hectares, almost one-third of them in the Ilocos Region).
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[DatePublished] => 2002-10-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1708476 [AuthorName] => Roman F. Floresca [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [Title] => Biotech crops' global value reaches $7.5 billion
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The global market value of biotechnology crops reached $7.5 billion in 2008, up from $6.9 billion in 2007.

[DatePublished] => 2009-04-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 440052 [Title] => RP maintains standing in world biotech league [Summary] =>

MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines has maintained its standing in the league of “biotechnology mega-countries.”

[DatePublished] => 2009-02-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 321303 [Title] => Bt crop global market passes $5-B mark [Summary] => The global market value of biotechnology crops hit the $5.25- billion mark in 2005, registering a significant increase of more than half a billion dollars over that of the previous year.

The $5.25 billion represented 15 percent of the $34 billion global crop protection market last year and 18 percent of the $30 billion 2005 global commercial seed market, reported the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA).
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 302079 [Title] => Eggplant now RP’s top vegetable crop — UPLB [Summary] => Time was when eggplant was just an ordinary vegetable crop.

The common notion then, too, was that it had low nutritional value.

Now, it is the country’s number one vegetable in terms of volume of production (about 179,000 tons per year valued at almost P2 billion) and hectares (some 20,000 hectares, almost one-third of them in the Ilocos Region).
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[DatePublished] => 2002-10-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1708476 [AuthorName] => Roman F. Floresca [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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