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                    [Title] => Coffee self-sufficiency targetted by 2015
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The Philippine coffee industry is targetted to attain self sufficiency in the aromatic bean by 2015, enabling the country to save P3.5 billion from annual imports of the bean, following the agreement signed in October 2008 between the Department of Agriculture and the stakeholders in the sector.

[DatePublished] => 2009-04-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1720791 [AuthorName] => Rose de la Cruz [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 409980 [Title] => Coffee board seeks P150-M budget support [Summary] => The Philippine Coffee Board is seeking budgetary support from the Department of Agriculture to allow the local coffee ... [DatePublished] => 2008-10-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097285 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 54206 [Title] => Storing up water for the dry season [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2008-04-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 20751 [Title] => Food industry steps up sustainable agri initiative [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2007-10-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 361973 [Title] => Coffee board may soon realize its long-term goal [Summary] => The Philippine Coffee Board’s (PCB) long-time goal of accurate coffee hectarage and annual coffee production forecasting may soon be achieved as Nescafé renews its pledge of financial and technical assistance.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 350116 [Title] => Sowing the seeds of a good coffee product [Summary] => For more than 12 years now, the Nestle Experimental and Development Farm (NEDF) in Tagum City, Davao has been giving free technical training to coffee farmers, technicians and agriculture students year round.

"What we do is extend technical assistance to the farmers and in some cases put up demonstration farms where we provide inputs while the farmers provide the labor as equity," reveals Zenon Alenton, resident agronomist for NEDF. "We introduce Nescafé technology to them."
[DatePublished] => 2006-07-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 342587 [Title] => Sangkap sa bio-diesel itinatanim na [Summary] => INFANTA, Quezon – Sinimulan na ng lokal na pamahalaan ang pagtuklas ng alternatibong fuel na maaaring magamit sa mga sasakyan at ito ay sa pamamagitan ng jethropa o tuba-tuba.

Ayon sa mga eksperto, ang buto ng tuba-tuba ay 30 porsyentong bio-diesel na pwedeng pagkunan ng kinakailangang fuel o langis na kahalintulad ng inaangkat ng Pilipinas mula sa ibang bansa.
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Probinsiya [SectionUrl] => probinsiya [URL] => ) ) )
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