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                    [ArticleID] => 1304892
                    [Title] => Agroforestry for food security, environment protection pushed
                    [Summary] => 

Promoting agroforestry in enhancing greening and food security program is a must to achieve sustainable development in our country.

[DatePublished] => 2014-03-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1689765 [AuthorName] => Ric V. Obedencio [SectionName] => Freeman Region [SectionUrl] => region [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1268540 [Title] => Agroforestry revitalizes Isabela’s Abuan watershed [Summary] =>

The National Geographic Channel (NGC) recently took a step in helping reforest the Isabela mountains through the distribution of 20,000 fruit trees to agroforestry farmers in the area.

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1685860 [AuthorName] => Rhodina Villanueva [SectionName] => The Good News [SectionUrl] => the-good-news [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 796384 [Title] => MSBF plants forest trees [Summary] =>

For more than 30 years, Manila Seedling Bank Foundation (MSBF) has developed the technology of establishing successfully productive agro forestry and tree farms in marginal and sub-marginal forestland and private lands.

[DatePublished] => 2012-04-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Modern Living [SectionUrl] => modern-living [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 744627 [Title] => Savant pushes agroforestry for greening program [Summary] =>

Dr. Calixto Protacio of UP Los Banos believes agroforesty is what the country needs to make the National Greening Program (NGP) a continuing success.

[DatePublished] => 2011-11-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 71211 [Title] => Angara files agroforestry measure [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2008-07-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096615 [AuthorName] => Christina Mendez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 393822 [Title] => Zubiri pushes for implementation of agroforestry program [Summary] => Senatorial candidate Juan Miguel Zubiri is calling on the government to fasttrack the grant of reforestation permits to non-governmental organizations and cooperatives that are willing to re-green denuded forestlands under a little-known program which has opened four million hectares of land to agroforestry.

Zubiri said the full implementation of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources Order 2005-05 may solve the twin problems of deforestation and unemployment.
[DatePublished] => 2007-04-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 379928 [Title] => UPLB agroforestry unit to offer MS program [Summary] => The UP Los Baños Insitute of Agroforestry (IAF) will soon be offering an MS program designed to develop agroforesters more thoroughly as professionals. By June 2007, the curriculum for BS Agroforestry of all schools and universities will be standardized as a joint effort of the Philippine Agroforestry Education Education and Research Network, where the IAF is currently its national secretariat, and CHED to raie the bar of agroforestry education.
[DatePublished] => 2007-01-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 320456 [Title] => Angara files agroforestry bill [Summary] => Sen. Edgardo Angara has filed Senate Bill 2201 which seeks to enhance the practice of agroforestry in the country by creating the Board of Agroforestry under the Professional Regulation Commission.

In pushing for the passage of the bill, Angara stressed the "twin demands" of the environment and the people in the need to use agroforestry as a key to resource rehabilitation, sustainable development and preservation of our natural resources.
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 233176 [Title] => Cavite farmers develop agroforestry system [Summary] => Call it folk technology.

A project of Silang (Cavite) farmers, it has been named 1:4 Pooc Agroforestry, a multi-storey cropping system. The system explains its name: 1 stands for one hectare and 4 for the number of crops simultaneously grown.

The technology was adjudged the Most Outstanding Agroforestry Practice (first prize) in the poster presentation contest at the First National Agroforestry Congress held last Nov. 19-20 at the Leyte State University (LSU) in Baybay, Leyte.
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 180622 [Title] => Farmers’ landcare project [Summary] => In more than 20 towns in Northern Mindanao and Central Visayas, farmers conserve their soil with less time, energy and back breaking work. During land preparation, they leave narrow (one-meter wide) strips of land along the contour, unplowed. Called natural vegetative strips or NVS, natural grasses grow voluntarily, serving as natural barriers against soil erosion. Farmers spend less than five-person-days to establish NVS. It does not compete heavily with crops. Once introduced in a neighborhood, farmers can easily spread it among themselves. [DatePublished] => 2002-10-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) ) )
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