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Editor’s Note:
Water: Our common thirst.......................................................................2
Pesticide overkill
(Whatever happened to IPM?)..................................................................3
Growing healthy, pest-free pak-choi.........................................................6
Food fortification
Revving up your Vitamin A intake.............................................................8
Expanding agricultural exports:
How to market perishables.......................................................................9
Liquid sweetener from molasses:
Natural, nutritious alternative to sugar.....................................................11
Waste not swine waste...........................................................................12
Weather lores have scientific basis .........................................................14
Increase profit from coconut-based farming.............................................16
New corn varieties IES Glut 4 and IES Cn 5
developed and distributed ......................................................................17
Evaporative cooling system for short-term
holding of Chinese cabbage and tomato ..................................................18
Monitoring the condition of inland waters .................................................20
Saving the endangered buga: A potential health food................................21
Water evaporating too fast?
Slow it down with plastic nets .................................................................22 |
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Notes.....................................................................................................2
BAFC conditions suited............................................................................3
Rice-based farming ................................................................................5
Cruciferous crops....................................................................................7
Stop the sap-sucking pest........................................................................9
Getting rid of white stemborer................................................................11
Grafted tomato technology ....................................................................12
Rid your bananas of bugtok ...................................................................14
Protein-enriched kamote .......................................................................15
Sweet potato in a barren........................................................................17
Increase mushroom harvest?.................................................................19
Energizing the silkworm.........................................................................20
4 in 1 Cassava......................................................................................21
Grow-out farming .................................................................................22
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| Vol. 7 No. 3 July-September 2005 |
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Notes: Fruits for all seasons ...................................................................2
Our fruit industry: Where we stand .........................................................3
Improving mango production using indigenous techniques ........................5
Improving ´Manila super´ with giberellic acid ..........................................6
Strengthening the citrus industry in Nueva Vizcaya ..................................7
He grows citrus the scientific way ...........................................................9
Yacon: The apple of the earth ...............................................................10
Cover story: The potential of dragon fruit ..............................................11
The avian flu: A menace to the public ....................................................15
Benefitting from tilapia cage culture: The story of Mang Teddy .................17
A medical doctor's love affair with mangosteen .......................................19
Coco-biodiesel: Alternate energy source ................................................20
Pinoy's coconet goes global ...................................................................21
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Notes: The fabric of life ..........................................................................2
The Philippine fiber industry: A situationer ................................................3
A multi-stranded yarning machine for abaca .............................................6
Extracting fiber with a clever machine: World's first ...................................7
Entrepreneur Alex Tan:Living by the fiber .................................................9
Dr. Remy Abgona: A scientist with a heart ...............................................10
FIDA and the fiber industry .....................................................................12
Tinagak-making: Spinning thread to success ............................................15
What can genetically improved carabaos do for the country? .....................18
Sago: A wealth leached from the pith ......................................................20
Itnegs pride: Natural dye weaving technology ...........................................22
Improvements in banana ........................................................................24
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