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The 44-million Global Aqua feeds plant is funded by a loan from the Agricultural Guarantee Loan Fund of the Development Bank of the Philippines and releases from the Department of Agricultures Agricultural Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (ACEF) of P6.4 million.
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1720791 [AuthorName] => Rose de la Cruz [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 210193 [Title] => Sure market awaits tilapia growers [Summary] => Tilapia subcontractors of TGA Foods Corp. in Central Luzon are now assured of a ready market for their fish output since the company is buying everything they would produce at a guaranteed price of P43 a kilo, versus the wet market rate of P30 to P35 a kilo.
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1720791 [AuthorName] => Rose de la Cruz [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 191355 [Title] => Up the food chain [Summary] => TGA Farms, Inc. has come a long way since Agnes Tayag sold her homes for rent in 1990 and used the proceeds to develop a 10-hectare tilapia farm in Arayat, Pampanga.
This year, TGA (which stands for Tayag, Goquingco Aquaculture) is looking at the export market.
"We have been processing and promoting tilapia fillets and other special cuts on a trial basis since 2000. We are now ready to regularly supply the US market," said president and chief executive officer Rene Tayag.
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1721099 [AuthorName] => Rose G. De La Cruz [SectionName] => Business As Usual [SectionUrl] => business-as-usual [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 161557 [Title] => Bless the fish [Summary] => A year before Mt. Pinatubo erupted, Jose and Agnes sold the three bungalow houses they rented out to American soldiers and bought a two-hectare farm in Arayat, Pampanga. Without much researchexcept from what they had heard from people aroundthe Tayags converted the farm into a fishpond for St. Peters fish or tilapia, using the P312,000 it borrowed from the Balikatan sa Kabuhayan program of the Technology and Livelihood Resources Center.
[DatePublished] => 2002-05-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1721099 [AuthorName] => Rose G. De La Cruz [SectionName] => Business As Usual [SectionUrl] => business-as-usual [URL] => ) ) )
The 44-million Global Aqua feeds plant is funded by a loan from the Agricultural Guarantee Loan Fund of the Development Bank of the Philippines and releases from the Department of Agricultures Agricultural Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (ACEF) of P6.4 million.
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1720791 [AuthorName] => Rose de la Cruz [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 210193 [Title] => Sure market awaits tilapia growers [Summary] => Tilapia subcontractors of TGA Foods Corp. in Central Luzon are now assured of a ready market for their fish output since the company is buying everything they would produce at a guaranteed price of P43 a kilo, versus the wet market rate of P30 to P35 a kilo.
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1720791 [AuthorName] => Rose de la Cruz [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 191355 [Title] => Up the food chain [Summary] => TGA Farms, Inc. has come a long way since Agnes Tayag sold her homes for rent in 1990 and used the proceeds to develop a 10-hectare tilapia farm in Arayat, Pampanga.
This year, TGA (which stands for Tayag, Goquingco Aquaculture) is looking at the export market.
"We have been processing and promoting tilapia fillets and other special cuts on a trial basis since 2000. We are now ready to regularly supply the US market," said president and chief executive officer Rene Tayag.
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1721099 [AuthorName] => Rose G. De La Cruz [SectionName] => Business As Usual [SectionUrl] => business-as-usual [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 161557 [Title] => Bless the fish [Summary] => A year before Mt. Pinatubo erupted, Jose and Agnes sold the three bungalow houses they rented out to American soldiers and bought a two-hectare farm in Arayat, Pampanga. Without much researchexcept from what they had heard from people aroundthe Tayags converted the farm into a fishpond for St. Peters fish or tilapia, using the P312,000 it borrowed from the Balikatan sa Kabuhayan program of the Technology and Livelihood Resources Center.
[DatePublished] => 2002-05-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1721099 [AuthorName] => Rose G. De La Cruz [SectionName] => Business As Usual [SectionUrl] => business-as-usual [URL] => ) ) )