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Hot water treatment (HWT) is a requisite for mangoes exported to China and Hongkong. In 2008, Mindanao exported about 2,300 metric tons of fresh mango valued at more than US$3.5 million, representing a volume increase of 16 percent over the previous year....
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MATANOG, MAGUINDANAO—“This area used to be planted with corn,” said Baitan Guinta, waving her hand over hectares of intensely green banana trees. The thriving banana plantation, managed by the 25-member Lucrative Agri-Development Multi-Purpose Coope...
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Brgy. Bololmala in the municipality of Tupi is located within the “fruit, flower and vegetable basket” of South Cotabato. Investors are drawn by the area’s agricultural resources, its proximity to the agro-industrial hub centered in General Santos C...
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Hot water treatment (HWT) is a requisite for mangoes exported to China and Hongkong. In 2008, Mindanao exported about 2,300 metric tons of fresh mango valued at more than US$3.5 million, representing a volume increase of 16 percent over the previous year....
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Institutional buyers (right) for top supermarket chains in Malaysia sample the processed fruit products of Fruitgems Agricultural Corporation, which participated in the 8th Philippine Food Expo last week in Manila with marketing support from USAID’s Gro...
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Baitan Guinta is secretary of the Lucrative Agri-Development Multi-Purpose Cooperative, which manages this 11-hectare banana plantation supplying the country’s top supermarket chains. (GEM) Published in www.thephilsouthangle.com, March 16, 2009; www.m...
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U.S. Ambassador Kristie A. Kenney and USAID Mission Director Jon Lindborg (center) went to Polomolok, South Cotabato, to visit a marketing and technology forum organized by the Sumbakil Multi-Purpose Cooperative (MPC), whose members are former combatants ...
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Luis Go (2nd from left) is the president of the Sulu Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which established a Business Permit Assistance Desk staffed by chamber project officer Julkiram Arastam (center, back) at the Jolo municipal hall. With them are (l-r) K...
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Mega Aquaculture Corporation and Mindanao State University (MSU) in Tawi-Tawi are working together to advance research and development that will spark the hatchery cultivation of high-value species of abalone (inset photo) and grouper in the Sulu Archipel...
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Professor Connie Toring (right foreground) of Mindanao State University-Tawi-Tawi shows a staff member of the multi-species hatchery managed by Mega Aquaculture Corporation how to segregate male and female abalone (left), in preparation for spawning. Mega...
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This farmer from the 40-member Tinaguman Farmers’ Association in Alamada, North Cotabato, spreads grain over a solar dryer, the use of which helps to reduce post-harvest losses due to excess moisture. The association’s planting area totals more than 4...
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U.S. Ambassador Kristie A. Kenney and USAID Mission Director Jon Lindborg (far right) visited Polomolok, South Cotabato, to mark the completion of the Sumbakil “Barangay Bridge” (in background) built by USAID’s Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) P...
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U.S. Ambassador Kristie A. Kenney and USAID Mission Director Jon Lindborg (far right) were in Polomolok, South Cotabato, to visit a vegetable marketing and technology forum organized by the Sumbakil Multi-Purpose Cooperative, comprised of former combatant...
