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                    [ArticleID] => 1256286
                    [Title] => Recipe File: Tempura with soba soup
                    [Summary] => 

1) For the broth, prepare four Japanese soup bowls (Melawares located at the basement, Megamall Building B)

[DatePublished] => 2013-11-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Food and Leisure [SectionUrl] => food-and-leisure [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 771825 [Title] => Visayas State University develops new technology to increase prawn production [Summary] =>

The Visayas State University (VSU) in Baybay City, Leyte plans to put up more prawn hatchery facilities to help local growers produce more and avail of the huge export opportunity for prawns.

[DatePublished] => 2012-01-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 628811 [Title] => DA plans to revitalize prawn industry [Summary] =>

The Department of Agriculture (DA) plans to revitalize the local prawn industry as Japanese traders expressed renewed interest to source prawns from the Philippines.

[DatePublished] => 2010-11-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097285 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 11230 [Title] => ASEAN nations plan WTO action on Australian prawn ban: reports [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2007-08-07 12:21:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 381048 [Title] => Ulang, palay can live together in same field [Summary] => Ulang (giant freshwater prawn) can grow with rice plants in the same field.

This has been attested by studies done over the years by government aquaculturists and fishfarmers.

Actually, the rice-prawn technology is a modification of the rice-fish farming system developed by the Department of Agriculture (DA) way back in the late 1970s. The rice-fish system, however, suffered some setbacks because of inappropriate design not acceptable by farmers.
[DatePublished] => 2007-01-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 342179 [Title] => A black or white choice [Summary] => With export manufacturing capabilities and competitiveness continuously diminishing, the agricultural sector has to beef up its contribution to the economy and increase its export revenue contributions. We cannot merely rely on overseas Filipino workers’ earnings to keep our economy afloat.

But as the agricultural sector struggles to gain a share of the expanding regional market, it is faced with various issues and conflicting choices. Take for instance the local prawn industry. It is now on a bumpy road, and needs to decide quickly how to get back on the right track.
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133715 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 262214 [Title] => BFAR relaxes rules on importation of Pacific white shrimp [Summary] => The Bureau of  Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) is relaxing its  rules on the  importation and commercial propagation of  the exotic Pacific white shrimp (litopeneaus vannamei) in the Philippines.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 247594 [Title] => Should white shrimp be banned in RP? [Summary] => Despite the prohibition of its entry in the Philippines, Luzon prawn producers are still pressuring the Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) to lift an existing ban on the exotic white shrimp or litopeneaus vannamei.

The growing popularity of vannamei in the Luzon region, has spawned tension among their counterparts in the Visayas, particularly the Negros Occidental growers, that widespread commercial production of vannamei will eventually hurt their own production of peneaus monodon or black tiger prawn.
[DatePublished] => 2004-04-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 245757 [Title] => Prawn industry players split over white shrimp issue [Summary] => Players in the local prawn industry are divided over the issue of whether government should maintain the ban on the importation and commercial propagation of the exotic Pacific white shrimp (litopeneaus vannamei) in the Philippines.

At odds are several Luzon prawn producers and the Negros Occidental prawn producers and other growers in southern Philippines or in the Visayas region which pioneered in the export of black tiger prawn prawns in the 1980s.
[DatePublished] => 2004-04-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 201687 [Title] => DA to create Prawn Board [Summary] => The Department of Agriculture (DA) will create a Prawn Board to address the pressing concerns of the industry, particularly growers in Negros Occidental, one of the biggest prawn-producing regions in the country.

The local prawn industry is beset with problems such as declining margins, higher production costs, weak demand and falling prices.

The proposed board, according to Agriculture Secretary Luis Lorenzo Jr., will include representatives from the shrimp industry, government, academe and possibly research institutions.
[DatePublished] => 2003-04-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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