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                    [Title] => BF homeowners get their way: Maynilad resumes pipe-laying
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Maynilad Water Services Inc. has resumed pipe-laying activities in at least five areas of BF Homes subdivision in Parañaque City, where water supply has been a problem for decades.

[DatePublished] => 2009-08-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1685860 [AuthorName] => Rhodina Villanueva [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 76762 [Title] => BF Homes execs evict barangay officials from clubhouse [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2008-08-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097363 [AuthorName] => Michael Punongbayan [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 271053 [Title] => Fertilizing sugarcane with the aid of computers [Summary] => Now, with the aid of a computer program, the right amount of fertilizer needed by a sugarcane plant proportionate to the nutrients already in the soil can be accurately calculated.

Named Sugar Farm Information System, the software was designed by the Philippine Sugar Research Institute Foundation, Inc. (Philsurin) after standardizing the analysis methods of the soil laboratories of five entities; Department of Agriculture-Iloilo, Philsurin, Lopez Sugar, First Farmers, and Negros Prawn.
[DatePublished] => 2005-03-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 268786 [Title] => R&D programs propel sugar industry [Summary] => The local sugar industry, now a vibrant component of the similarly robust agriculture sector, continues to benefit from scientific headways.

Consider:

• The Philippines is now an active participant in the Sugarcane Variety Improvement in Southeast Asia and the Pacific for Enhanced and Sustainable Productivity project.

• About 1,000 sugarcane accessions are now being maintained at the germplasm bank of the Philippine Sugar Research Institute Foundation Inc. (Philsurin) in Victorias City, Negros Occidental.
[DatePublished] => 2005-02-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 268270 [Title] => What ails your sugarcane crop? [Summary] => Outbreaks of sugarcane diseases and pests wreak havoc on sugar production. In the last 14 years, reduction in tonnage due to mosaic disease averaged 23.03 percent. Yellow spot disease’s first outbreak in Negros resulted in a yield loss of 16.30 percent. Catastrophes like these have prompted the Philippine Sugar Research Institute Foundation Inc. to create efficient disease and pest management programs.
[DatePublished] => 2005-02-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 267327 [Title] => Philsurin develops sugarcane biofertilizer [Summary] => Exciting developments are taking place in the search for a substitute for expensive chemical sugarcane fertilizers. Should the experiments succeed, the cost of fertilizer application may be greatly reduced in the future.

Long applied to rice, corn and other crops in the Philippines, biofertilizers have not been developed for sugarcane, notwithstanding that sugarcane also requires large amounts of fertilizers.
[DatePublished] => 2004-12-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) ) )
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