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ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK—Food security experts looking for innovative ways to connect smallhold farmers to increasingly competitive and fast-moving modern markets turned for answers recently to a group of Mindanao growers.
Agribusiness leaders and senior...
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There is a huge global demand for the kind of “eco-friendly” products for which Mindanao is known, said Mindanao Trade Expo Foundation president Ann Pamintuan (standing). The foundation is organizing the Mindanao Trade Expo, which will be held from ...
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Working with local partners, the U.S. government has built more than 1,000 community infrastructure projects across conflict-affected areas of Mindanao to support increased economic activity and help fulfill the promises of peace.PAGLAT, MAGUINDANAO—In ...
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A member of the Upper Pahut Multi-Purpose Cooperative holds a mature tiger grouper grown at the cooperative’s fish farm in Bongao, Tawi-Tawi. Composed of former Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) combatants, members of the cooperative were trained ...
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BUTUAN CITY—Consolidation and marketing opportunities in the domestic vegetable trade will be highlighted at the 7th Mindanao Vegetable Congress, which will be held from August 4 to 5 at the Almont Hotel and Inland Resort in this city.
“Sustaining th...
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SURIGAO CITY—A private sector group here has initiated a scholarship program to increase the limited pool of mining professionals now available within the Caraga region, which has some of the country’s richest mineral deposits.
Dulmar Raagas, preside...
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Students from the Notre Dame Village Elementary School in Cotabato City have fun with science reference books included in a package of laboratory equipment acquired for them by their parent-teacher association (PTA), with the help of a matching grant fr...
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The dilapidated bridge (inset) which used to cross the Mangilala River in Barangay Bual, Isulan, Sultan Kudarat, was replaced recently by a concrete slab bridge (main photo) built by USAID’s Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) Program in partnership ...
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Mazna Balabagan, a 3rd-year high school student at the Kapingkong National High School in Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat, peers into a new binocular microscope acquired by the school’s Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) with the help of USAID’s Growth with...
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Some 44 officials and staff members from 17 chambers of commerce and industry in Mindanao attended a seminar on events organizing and management, held last week at the VIP Hotel in Cagayan de Oro City by USAID's Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) Prog...
