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[Title] => Moves to curb veggie imports on
[Summary] => To curb importations, the Philippine Vegetable Industry Development Board and the Organization of Imported Vegetables Inc. recently signed a memorandum of understanding which calls for mutual cooperation for the full development and strengthening of the local vegetable industry.
In a statement, Blo Umpar Adiong, director of the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI), said a committee has been formed to monitor the accuracy of vegetable imports vis-a-vis the local supply.
[DatePublished] => 2003-09-14 00:00:00
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[Title] => Rice Garden at Luneta inaugurated
[Summary] => Now, there’s a "Rice Garden at the Luneta."
The unique garden aims "to bring to the attention of urban dwellers, particularly the young, the significance of rice to the country’s cultural heritage and way of life."
The garden was inaugurated recently, with the ceremony capped by the signing of a memorandum of agreement (MOA) among four government and private institutions for its operation and maintenance.
[DatePublished] => 2003-08-06 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez
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[Title] => Plant industry bureau turns 73, cites successes
[Summary] => The Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) has invited Agriculture Secretary to be the guest of honor during its simple 73rd anniversary celebration tomorrow.
BPI director Blo Umpar Adiong cited the agency’s "sincere adherence" to the Department of Agriculture’s guiding policy on job generation, increased income for the farmers and food security.
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-13 00:00:00
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[Title] => It’s over – Bt corn wins
[Summary] => It was no doubt a knockout win by our women scientists.
The Bureau of Plant Industry recently approved the commercial utilization in the country of the high-yielding genetically modified corn variety known as Bt corn. This variety is highly resistant to the Asian corn borer which is responsible largely for damages being suffered by Filipino corn farmers. This means that farmers no longer have to spend so much for chemical insecticide application just to get rid of this pest.
[DatePublished] => 2002-12-18 00:00:00
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[Title] => Legal veggie importations minimal — BPI
[Summary] => The controversy over salad vegetables is getting hotter each day because of issues on their importation.
The real issue is smuggling, not legal importation. And this is what the Bureau of Plant Industry’s Plant Quarantine Service (BPI-PQS) and even the whole bureaucracy abhor as the agency stands pat on its efforts to help the farmers, not the importers. PQS has no police power to run after the smugglers.
[DatePublished] => 2002-11-25 00:00:00
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[Title] => Veggie farmers to improve production to meet demand
[Summary] => Vegetable growers in Ben—guet and Mt. Province agreed in a recent dialogue with importers and traders to improve their vegetable production to curb the importation of these commodities and revive the industry again.
Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) director Blo Umpar Adiong initiated the dialogue to help highland farmers address the issue of vegetable importation.
Agriculture Undersecretary Ernesto Ordoñez, Customs Commissioner Antonio Bernardo and local government officials of Benguet and Mt. Province also attended the dialogue.
[DatePublished] => 2002-10-28 00:00:00
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[Title] => DA urges Taiwan to accept RP fruits
[Summary] => The Department of Agriculture (DA) is urging the Taiwan government to make an early decision on the Philippines to export its tropical fruits to Taiwan.
The Philippines hopes to ship out bananas, mangoes, pineapples, and coconuts and says it has complied with all the documentation and technical requirements imposed by Taiwan.
[DatePublished] => 2002-02-23 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Katherine Adraneda
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[Title] => RP to export mangoes to US, Australia
[Summary] => There is one thing the Philippines can be proud of. The country will be exporting Guimaras mangoes this coming harvest to Australia and the United States, according to Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) director Blo Umpar Adiong.
As a frontline defense in crop protection, Adiong said the bureau’s Plant Quarantine Service (PQS) has succeeded in putting Philippine fruits in foreign markets.
Mango exports to the United States, Adiong said, resulted from almost 10 years of negotiations between the BPI and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).
[DatePublished] => 2002-01-17 00:00:00
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[Title] => RP lifts ban on Chinese fruits
[Summary] => Agriculture Secretary Leonardo Montemayor announced that the Philippines is temporary lifting the ban on the importation of apples, pears, apricots, peaches, plums, quinces, cherries, almonds, walnuts, ornamental apples and corn from selected areas in China.
He said lifting the temporary ban will foster a stronger relationship in the trade of agricultural commodities between the Philippines and China.
[DatePublished] => 2001-12-05 00:00:00
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[Title] => Mindanao fruit industry meet focuses on competitiveness
[Summary] => DAVAO CITY – Mindanao’s fruit industry is getting a boost from the combined efforts of the private sector and government to enhance the sector’s competitiveness in the global market.
These developments will be the focus of the Second Mindanao Fruit Industry Conference which will be held here Nov. 14 to 17, at the Apo View Hotel.
The activity is expected to draw more than 600 fruit growers, traders, processors, exporters, agro-chemical companies and government officials from across the Philippines.
[DatePublished] => 2001-11-11 00:00:00
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