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                    [ArticleID] => 866814
                    [Title] => Trickle
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Investment inflow to our economy slowed to a trickle for September, the BSP admits.

[DatePublished] => 2012-11-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134157 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804783 [AuthorName] => Alex Magno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 704110 [Title] => Bangladesh expands hybrid rice seed production area [Summary] =>

Bangladesh , one of the world’s biggest rice consuming countries, is expanding its hybrid rice seed production area from 300 hectares this year to 3,000 hectares in the coming years, “as it recognizes the contribution of the high-yielding seeds to its rice production program.”

[DatePublished] => 2011-07-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1737650 [AuthorName] => Sanny Galvez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 683321 [Title] => Indon company reports big hybrid rice harvests [Summary] =>

An official of PT Sang Hyang Seri, an Indonesian government agricultural firm, has reported over the weekend that Indonesia has been making big harvests using the hybrid rice seeds variety that it has been importing since 2007 from SL Agritech Corp.

[DatePublished] => 2011-05-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1737650 [AuthorName] => Sanny Galvez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 644169 [Title] => Nueva Ecija farmers urged to protect lead as top rice producer [Summary] =>

Henry Lim, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of SL Agritech Corp., has urged farmers in Nueva Ecija to maintain the province’s lead as the country’s top rice producer and to promote the planting of hybrid rice “to increase your harvest that would provide a positive outlook for our rice industry.”

[DatePublished] => 2011-01-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1737650 [AuthorName] => Sanny Galvez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 635887 [Title] => Vietnam adopts SL Agritech hybrid tech [Summary] =>

Vietnam, one the world’s richest agricultural regions and the world’s seventh largest consumer of rice, will be the 4th Asian country to adopt the hybrid rice technology of SL Agritech Corp., a Makati City-based firm engaged in the production of hybrid rice seeds.

[DatePublished] => 2010-12-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1737650 [AuthorName] => Sanny Galvez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 576552 [Title] => Department of Agriculture plans to expand hybrid rice area by 64,170 hectares [Summary] =>

The Department of Agriculture (DA) is targeting an additional 64,170 hectares for planting to hybrid rice this year to offset projected production losses from the El Nino dry spell.

[DatePublished] => 2010-05-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097285 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 354406 [Title] => Market [Summary] => The member economies of the ASEAN have agreed to accelerate programs that would create an integrated regional economy by 2015. That involves moving the date for full regionalization by five years from the earlier target of 2020.

There is strong impetus for doing this. The economic ministers of the ASEAN reckon that unless the region speeds up the creation of an open market, investments will move to China and India instead. Many opportunities for growth will be lost to the Southeast Asian countries.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134157 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804783 [AuthorName] => Alex Magno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 307920 [Title] => Center of gravity [Summary] => Sometime in this century, the two largest economies in the world will be China and India. Not coincidentally, they are also the world’s two most populous countries.

The significance of that is amplified by the fact that these two countries continue with hefty population growth rates while the populations of the "old" economies of western Europe, Japan and North America decline.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134157 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804783 [AuthorName] => Alex Magno [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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