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                    [Title] => Housewives earn extra income making 'paper charcoal'
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After a hard day’s work, Glo asks for an additional “compensation” from families she works for as a live-out laundrywoman.

[DatePublished] => 2010-04-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Business As Usual [SectionUrl] => business-as-usual [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 542931 [Title] => Charcoal briquettes made of newspapers developed [Summary] =>

Here’s a new product created out of scrap paper: charcoal briquette.

[DatePublished] => 2010-01-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 323368 [Title] => Substitute for imported bamboo machine developed [Summary] => Enterpreneurs manufacturing bamboo products for export need not anymore import the machine or lathe which they use in their ventures.

A lathe that can make bamboo stems into thin sheets or veneer for the production of furniture and handicraft has been developed by engineers of the Los Baños-based DOST-Forest Products Research and Development Institute (FPRDI).
[DatePublished] => 2006-02-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 265207 [Title] => Essential oil extractor developed for Tarlac folk [Summary] => People of Anao, the smallest town of Tarlac, have reason to be happy these days.

An essential oil extractor has been specially designed for them to boost the town’ booming ylang ylang (Cananga odorata) industry.

Although small in area (2,500 hectares), Anao can boast of a profitable essential plant oil business.

Consider: about 10,000 ylang ylang ("ilang-ilang" in Filipino) dominate the town’s landscape.
[DatePublished] => 2004-09-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 235529 [Title] => New camote variety good for making puto [Summary] => LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – There’s a new high-yielding sweetpotato variety.

Named BSU SP2 "Bengueta," it was developed by the Benguet State University-Northern Philippines Root Crop Research and Training Center (BSU-NPRCRTC) in this capital town.

The new variety was approved for commercialization late last year by the National Seed Industry Council (NSIC), Dr. Leoncia L. Tandang, immediate past director of the BSU-based Highland Agriculture and Resources Research and Development Consortium (HARRDEC), told this writer here.
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