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                    [Title] => Talisay to donate cut trees to DepEd
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The Talisay City government has found a noble way to dispose the 10 dead Gmelina trees in front of the City Hall that were cut down recently.

[DatePublished] => 2014-08-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1333920 [AuthorName] => Garry B. Lao [SectionName] => Freeman Metro Cebu [SectionUrl] => metro-cebu [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 687283 [Title] => Lightning strikes pregnant midwife [Summary] =>

A 40-year-old casual employee of the city government is now in comatose state after she was hit by lightning inside her home yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2011-05-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1289443 [AuthorName] => Edgar Allan Vilbar [SectionName] => Freeman Region [SectionUrl] => region [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 522904 [Title] => Bulacao fire destroys lumberyard [Summary] =>

Properties estimated to be worth around P200,000 went up in smoke when a fire destroyed a lumberyard in sitio Villa Mangga, barangay Bulacao, Cebu City yesterday morning.

[DatePublished] => 2009-11-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 464582 [Title] => Bamboo, cornstalk used in cement-bonded boards [Summary] =>

MANILA, Philippines – The Forest Products Research and Development Institute (FPRDI) of the Department of Science and Technology has developed a low-cost construction material from bamboo and cornstalk.

[DatePublished] => 2009-05-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804518 [AuthorName] => Ghio Ong [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 354852 [Title] => Moisture meter for furniture developed [Summary] => Small and medium enterprises (SME) engaged in furniture and handicraft production are now benefiting from a moisture meter developed by government researchers.

The needle-type electrical resistance moisture meter was designed and fabricated by a research team of the Los Baños-based DOST-Forest Products Research and Development Institute (FPRDI).
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 352449 [Title] => Gmelina can absorb carbon dioxide [Summary] => Yemane (Gmelina arborea), a species fondly dubbed as "furniture tree", can sequester or absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

A study done by the Los Baños-based Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau (DENR-ERDB) also found that yemane stores the carbon dioxide it sequesters in its roots, stems, and foliage through the scientific process of photosynthesis.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 352635 [Title] => Gmelina can absorb carbon dioxide [Summary] => Yemane (Gmelina arborea), a species fondly dubbed as "furniture tree", can sequester or absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

A study done by the Los Baños-based Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau (DENR-ERDB) also found that yemane stores the carbon dioxide it sequesters in its roots, stems, and foliage through the scientific process of photosynthesis.
[DatePublished] => 2006-08-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 293802 [Title] => Income from gmelina tree plantation can be tripled [Summary] => A technology that can triple a tree grower’s income from gmelina plantation has been developed.

Credit for the development of the "coppicing gmelina technology" goes to the Los Baños-based Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau (DENR-ERDB).

The technology is a cost-saving technique that can considerably increase the income of gmelina growers and result in bigger trees that can sequester (capture) a higher amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 292657 [Title] => Enriched camote pulp good as broiler feed [Summary] => From agricultural waste and pollutant to feed of broilers.

Through research, sweet potato pulp (SPP or pinagbalatan ng kamote) has been found by agricultural scientists of the Tarlac College of Agriculture (TCA) in Camiling, Tarlac, as a good feed for young chickens.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 273366 [Title] => 26 dye-yielding trees, plants identified [Summary] => Siling labuyo. Lanzones. Neem tree. Sineguelas. Acacia. Guava.

What do these and 20 other trees and plants have in common?

These are dye-yielding species and as such hold a potentially colorful niche in the natural dyes export market.

Their commercial potentials have been found in an extensive study done by researchers of the DOST-Philippine Textile Research Institute (PTRI).
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) ) )
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