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                    [Title] => BFAR drafts blueprint for mariculture highways
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The Philippines is eyeing to become a major player in the multi-billion dollar live-food-fish export business by establishing two mariculture highways that will link the network of mariculture parks (MPs) already set up all over the country, said Director Malcolm I. Sarmiento Jr. of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR). 

[DatePublished] => 2006-07-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 334236 [Title] => Sugpo successfully raised in marine pens [Summary] => CALAPE, Bohol - A technology breakthrough has been achieved yesterday here in this sleepy and rustic municipality in the Visayas with the bountiful harvest of tiger prawn or Penaeus monodon raised experimentally by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in marine fishpens.

Known more by the locals as sugpo, P. monodon are usually cultured in brackishwater fishponds along coastal areas particularly in Bacolod, Capiz, and Iloilo in the Visayas and Bulacan, Pampanga and Quezon province in Luzon.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 274052 [Title] => Ang pangako ng Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources [Summary] => ILANG buwang tinutukan ng aming grupo ang aktibidades ng mga Taiwanese na nangangalaga ng ipinagbabawal na mapaminsalang vannamei sa Zambales.

Matatandaang sa panayam namin kay Agriculture Secretary Yap, nagpalabas na raw siya ng order upang ipinatigil ang kanilang isinasagawang research trial sa Bunoan, Pangasinan kung nasaan ang hatchery at mga semilya ng vannamei.

Nagtakda rin si Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) Director Sarmiento ng araw kung kailan isasagawa ang pagpatay sa mga natitira pang vannamei.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133616 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1167424 [AuthorName] => Ben Tulfo [SectionName] => PSN Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 273174 [Title] => Inaasahan namin ang pangako ng BFAR... [Summary] => KAHAPON ay nagdaos ng isang kilos protesta ang Tambuyog sa harap ng tanggapan ng Department of Agriculture. Ito’y bilang protesta ng grupo at ilang mga mangingisda sa pagpasok ng ipinagbabawal na Vannamei sa ating bansa…

Kamakailan ay nabanggit ko sa aking kolum na ipinatigil na ni Agriculture Secretary Yap ang research sa Vannamei sa Dagupan kung saan naroon ang kanilang hatchery.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133616 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1167424 [AuthorName] => Ben Tulfo [SectionName] => PSN Opinyon [SectionUrl] => opinyon [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 255476 [Title] => The more, the merrier [Summary] => Aware of the increasing cost of fish feeds, fertilizers, and other farm inputs against the low market value of bangus and tilapia, Agriculture Secretary Luis P. Lorenzo Jr. has instructed the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) to fast-track the implementation of its program on the use of polyculture technology.

Lorenzo said the incorporation of secondary high value species such as lapu-lapu, siganids and shrimps in bangus ponds will significantly enhance the income of the farmer.
[DatePublished] => 2004-06-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 244280 [Title] => Fish terraces [Summary] => Baguio City — In a bid to bring more fish to the inhabitants of the Cordillera Autonomous Region (CAR), Agriculture Secretary Luis P. Lorenzo Jr. pledged to allocate some P700,000 as livelihood assistance to the fish terraces operators of Itogon and Tuba in Benguet, Mountain Province.

Lorenzo made the commitment last week in a message during the inauguration of the Kennon Road fish terraces in Camp 4 Tuba, Benguet.
[DatePublished] => 2004-03-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 163105 [Title] => Shrimp congress set in July [Summary] => Scientific advances in shrimp culture technology and the establishment of diagnostic laboratories for shrimp diseases by the government provide hope that the Philippine shrimp industry can still recover after a series of setbacks brought about by devastating diseases and other environment-related problems during the past few years.

To realize and hasten this recovery, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and the Philippine Shrimp Industry Association, Inc., are sponsoring a national congress to be held in Bacolod City on July 2-4, this year.
[DatePublished] => 2002-06-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) ) )
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