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                    [Title] => Flower farmers
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FLOWERS.

[DatePublished] => 2014-05-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135969 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-freeman/opinion/20140523/eartoon.gif ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1317953 [Title] => The indomitable Dutch [Summary] =>

We complain that we’re only a small nation – but once a handful of Dutchmen parlayed the profit motive into a vast empire, six times our size; today 14 million Dutchmen beat the gas shortage by pedaling to school or work on 8.5 million bicycles, earn $240M a year by exporting 500 varieties of tulips and other flowers, and keep a land where even the airport is 12-feet below sea level from getting wet.

[DatePublished] => 2014-05-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133347 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1659389 [AuthorName] => Preciosa S. Soliven [SectionName] => Education and Home [SectionUrl] => education-and-home [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1265773 [Title] => Visayas poultry sector reeling from impact of Yolanda [Summary] =>

Poultry raiser Bounty Fresh said the poultry industry in the Visayas is now reeling from the impact of Super Typhoon Yolanda as poultry population in the region decreases significantly and contract-growers suffer infrastructure damages.

[DatePublished] => 2013-12-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1237157 [Title] => Special feature: A look into Bohol’s oil palm industry [Summary] =>

About 6,500 hectares of land in the province of Bohol is  planted with oil palms, bringing in an estimated P5 billion income a year.

[DatePublished] => 2013-09-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1168381 [Title] => Onion, garlic growers seek Aquino’s help [Summary] =>

Because of the failure of authorities to stop the smuggling of onions and garlic in the country, onion and garlic growers have opted to approach President Aquino to ask him to help them stop the alleged “perversion” of some officials of the Department of Agriculture (DA).

[DatePublished] => 2013-09-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 841670 [Title] => No chicken feed [Summary] =>

For several years now, the chicken growers have been among our regular resource persons in Business & Leisure, the television show.

[DatePublished] => 2012-08-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133753 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 811159 [Title] => Singapore eyed for Philippine bananas [Summary] =>

Malacañang is eyeing the export of bananas to Singapore to help local banana farmers affected by the stricter entry requirements imposed by China, which allegedly found pests in the fruits from the Philippines.

[DatePublished] => 2012-05-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096652 [AuthorName] => Delon Porcalla [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 801879 [Title] => DA-7 professionalizes mango growers to meet demands [Summary] =>

In order to meet the market demand for high quality of mangoes in Central Visayas, the Department of Agriculture (DA) 7 aims to organize mango growers into professional associations or cooperatives.

[DatePublished] => 2012-04-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1333920 [AuthorName] => Garry B. Lao [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 787826 [Title] => New breed of Mindanao grower-entrepreneurs masters the supply chain [Summary] =>

Associations of growers in Mindanao are becoming increasingly competitive in the expanding fruit and vegetable supply chain by adopting a farsighted, corporate approach towards production and marketing.

[DatePublished] => 2012-03-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 755025 [Title] => Starting 'Em Young [Summary] =>

You can never be too young to start being healthy. Growers NutriBar participated in Garfield Apparel’s race, the Garfield Runner’s Cup held at the Manila Ocean Park.

[DatePublished] => 2011-12-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Health And Family [SectionUrl] => health-and-family [URL] => ) ) )
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