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                    [ArticleID] => 2217832
                    [Title] => To abaca or not? Questions hound BSP's switch to polymer banknotes
                    [Summary] => Questions surrounding the economic viability and sustainability of the new polymer banknotes popped up in a Senate committee hearing on Wednesday. 
                    [DatePublished] => 2022-10-19 15:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 0
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1806886
                    [AuthorName] => Ramon Royandoyan
                    [SectionName] => Business
                    [SectionUrl] => business
                    [URL] => https://media.philstar.com/photos/2022/07/16/untitled-1_2022-07-16_02-23-12239_thumbnail.jpg
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                    [ArticleID] => 2207828
                    [Title] => PhilFIDA to provide planting materials to abaca farmers
                    [Summary] => The Philippine Fiber Industry Development Authority has committed to deliver 100,000 abaca seed-derived planting materials to address the global shortage of abaca fibers.
                    [DatePublished] => 2022-09-07 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 0
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1804525
                    [AuthorName] => Danessa Rivera
                    [SectionName] => Business
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                    [ArticleID] => 2156796
                    [Title] => Abaca output up 9.8%
                    [Summary] => The production of abaca grew by 9.8 percent in 2021, driven by increased output in the majority of the regions.
                    [DatePublished] => 2022-01-28 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 0
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1805144
                    [AuthorName] => Catherine Talavera
                    [SectionName] => Business
                    [SectionUrl] => business
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                    [ArticleID] => 2144250
                    [Title] => Abaca shipments up 25% in 5 months
                    [Summary] => The country’s export earnings from abaca products jumped 24.7 percent in the first five months, driven by strong demand from most major markets.
                    [DatePublished] => 2021-11-28 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorID] => 1805144
                    [AuthorName] => Catherine Talavera
                    [SectionName] => Business
                    [SectionUrl] => business
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                    [ArticleID] => 1889940
                    [Title] => Abaca forays into food and beverage
                    [Summary] => Multiple restaurant brands operator Abaca Group announced its entry into the food and beverage management services in the hospitality sector.
                    [DatePublished] => 2019-02-01 00:00:00
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                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 
                    [AuthorName] => 
                    [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business
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                    [ArticleID] => 1842083
                    [Title] => DOST finds abaca, other fibers viable for banknotes
                    [Summary] => The time may not be long before the country develops the capability of producing banknotes as Department of Science and Technology (DOST) researchers have crafted a technology that can produce currency bank paper (CBP) from local indigenous materials.
                    [DatePublished] => 2018-08-13 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 0
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1724775
                    [AuthorName] => Rudy Fernandez
                    [SectionName] => Headlines
                    [SectionUrl] => headlines
                    [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/articles/gen13-abaca-fiber_2018-08-12_22-00-27_thumbnail.jpg
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                    [ArticleID] => 1660470
                    [Title] => New hybrid varieties tighten abaca industry
                    [Summary] => Abaca, known internationally for its world-class fiber, “Manila hemp,” continues to be one of the priority agricultural commodities of the Department of Agriculture (DA) with the country supplying more than 87.4 percent of the total abaca fiber market and earning more than $111.33 million in global abaca trade annually.
                    [DatePublished] => 2017-01-08 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => 
                    [SectionName] => Agriculture
                    [SectionUrl] => agriculture
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                    [ArticleID] => 1547986
                    [Title] => Too much land, too  little income
                    [Summary] => 

It looks like a banana tree.

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Export earnings from abaca products went down 4.4 percent in the first eight months of 2015 due to lower demand in the United States and Asia, the Fiber Industry Development Authority (FIDA) reported.

[DatePublished] => 2015-12-28 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1475310 [AuthorName] => Louise Maureen Simeon [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1505543 [Title] => Group to open second resort in Mactan integrated project [Summary] =>

The Abaca Group of Companies is set to open a 180-room luxury resort in Mactan in the last quarter of 2016, which will be located at the integrated property development called "The Reef."

[DatePublished] => 2015-09-29 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1298072 [AuthorName] => Ehda Dagooc [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business [SectionUrl] => cebu-business [URL] => ) ) )
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