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                    [ArticleID] => 575492
                    [Title] => Fiestas good venue in promoting local industries - DOST study
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Don’t look now, but fiestas are effective and profitable venues in promoting local industries.

[DatePublished] => 2010-05-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1724775 [AuthorName] => Rudy Fernandez [SectionName] => Business As Usual [SectionUrl] => business-as-usual [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 541338 [Title] => OFWs advised to invest in orchid production [Summary] =>

 Here’s a business tip for OFWs: Invest in orchid production.

[DatePublished] => 2010-01-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Business As Usual [SectionUrl] => business-as-usual [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 451891 [Title] => DOST endorses eco-friendly cooking stove [Summary] =>

MANILA, Philippines -- The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is promoting the use of an environment-friendly cooking stove developed by experts from the Visayas State University (VSU) using German technology.

[DatePublished] => 2009-03-26 16:40:02 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804518 [AuthorName] => Ghio Ong [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 430332 [Title] => PCARRD spearheads peanut crop improvement project [Summary] =>

The Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCARRD) approved recently an P8-million project to improve peanut production in the Cagayan Valley.

[DatePublished] => 2009-01-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804518 [AuthorName] => Ghio Ong [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 46569 [Title] => PCARRD establishes malapapaya farm [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2008-02-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1285724 [AuthorName] => Dulce Sanchez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 27002 [Title] => Gov’t ICT program reaches Muslim, IP communities [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2007-11-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Technology [SectionUrl] => technology [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 378181 [Title] => Campus scribes trained in S&T reporting [Summary] => LOS BAÑOS, Laguna – Seventy-seven campus journalists in Luzon and Mindanao have been trained in science and technology (S&T) reporting under a government S&T communication program.

Billed Saka Iskwela: Responsible Campus Journalism Toward Agricultural Productivity, the program is being implemented by the Los Baños-based Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and Development (DOST-PCARRD).
[DatePublished] => 2007-01-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 377785 [Title] => 212 farmers’ IT centers established [Summary] => LOS BAÑOS, Laguna – And now, there are 212 of them from Batanes to Basilan.

These are Farmers’ Informa-tion and Technology Services (FITS) centers set up across the country to provide the IT needs of people in the countryside to boost their livelihood activities.

A FITS center is a one-stop information shop that provides farmers, entrepreneurs, traders, processors, and other stakeholders with quick access to location-specific agricultural information services.
[DatePublished] => 2007-01-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Technology [SectionUrl] => technology [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 364340 [Title] => Average Pinoy uses 356 kg of woodfuel a year — study [Summary] => Did you know that an average Filipino uses 356 kilograms of woodfuel a year?

This is specially true in rural areas where wood consumption is at its highest, noted a study done by two Department of Science and Technology (DOST) agencies – the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCARRD) and National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST).

"Of the total demand for woodfuel, 82 percent constitutes that from households while 18 percent is from the industries," the study stated.
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Facilitating this is the Knowledge Networking Toward Enterprising Agricultural Communities Program (K-AgriNet), a collaborative venture of the Los Baños, Laguna-based Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and Development (DOST-PCARRD), Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), and Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP).
[DatePublished] => 2006-03-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1724775 [AuthorName] => Rudy Fernandez [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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