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                    [Title] => Wasteful rice consumption costs us $210 million yearly - PhilRice
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The Philippines can save as much as $210 million per year if Filipinos can do away with their wasteful ways of eating cooked rice.

[DatePublished] => 2010-09-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => http://a.imageshack.us/img833/3346/agri1thumb.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 75407 [Title] => A nutritious cooking oil [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2008-07-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 57120 [Title] => Not just for hog feed [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2008-04-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 50595 [Title] => PhilRice develops flood-tolerant variety [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2008-03-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 3874 [Title] => BPRE launches joint techno commercialization project [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2007-06-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 381047 [Title] => PhilRice gets new grant from Japan [Summary] => The Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) expects to receive another grant-in-aid from the government of Japan, as the Philippine Investment Coordination Committee and the Cabinet committee chaired by Secretary Margarito B. Teves have approved the agency’s proposal calling for the improvement of the research and development facilities in its seven R&D centers, which are distributed throughout the country.
[DatePublished] => 2007-01-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 376583 [Title] => Seed council releases first biotech rice variety in RP [Summary] => The first biotech rice variety in the Philippines, released only recently by the National Seed Industry Council [NSIC] for commercial production, is now being produced in a large scale.

Called NSIC Rc142 or Tubigan 7, the new rice variety is the country’s first product of a mid-level biotech technique called marker-aided selection. It is resistant to the dreaded bacterial leaf blight (BLB) disease, which is serious during the wet season.
[DatePublished] => 2006-12-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1750993 [AuthorName] => Sosimo Ma. Pablico [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 347658 [Title] => Young scientists meet [Summary] => Some 200 recipients of the OutstandingYoung Scientists (OYS) awards attended their first annual convention on July 11 at the Manila Hotel.
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 346751 [Title] => Philrice develops new hybrid variety [Summary] => The National Seed Industry Council (NSIC) has approved for commercialization, the country’s first marker-aided bred, high-yielding, bacterial leaf-blight resistant, hybrid rice variety. Developed by the Philippine Rice Research Institute (Philrice)," the new variety" shows great promise in terms of yield, in grain quality and in reducing, if not completely eliminating bacterial leaf blight disease that attacks rice farms especially during the wet season."
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1704647 [AuthorName] => Rocel Felix [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 327019 [Title] => New production system increases yields, income [Summary] => A new system of producing rice has been found to increase yields and income in Northwest Luzon.

PhilRice researchers led by Noel D. Ganotisi said the new rice production system is called PalayCheck, a variant of the RiceCheck that originated in Australia. The PalayCheck is being promoted by PhilRice, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization [UN FAO], and local government units in Northwest Luzon and other parts of the country.
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