The country temporarily bans chocolate milk products from Japan after the March 11 earthquake, although it was just a verbal order issued by Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) Director Efren Nuestro. Philippines joins other countries like Russia, Canada, Australia and Singapore, among the list of countries which banned Japanese food imports as radioactive steam wafted [...]

The Canlaon Alco Green Industrial Corporation will be investing P5.192 billion for a bioethanol plant in Bago, Negros Occidental. And because of its multi-million investment in the bioethanol project, Canlaon will be receiving six years worth of income tax holiday (ITH), according to Lucita P. Reyes, executive director of the Board of Investments (BOI).
Reyes said [...]

To meet the local coffee demand of 64,000 metric tons (MT), a Coffee Fund to finance production is being set up by the Land Bank of the Philippines and (LBP) and coffee grower Corporate Holdings Management Inc. (CHMI).
President Noel S. Gonzales of CHMI said, “Any business will not survive without funding from banks. We can’t [...]

The plight of the coffee growers in the Philippines is the main focus of the continuing project of Nestle Philippines, Inc.  in support of the coffee industry in the country. The company is extending its assistance to coffee farmers, particularly in the provinces of Aurora, Bohol and Mindoro, with the cooperation of the Department of [...]

Every year the SGV Foundation conducts the Search for the Philippines’ Entrepreneur of the Year (EoY) to encourage more entrepreneurs to help bring progress to the country. Recently, it just announced the start for this year’s search.
Nominees for this search must be Filipino entrepreneurs whose business have been in operation for at least two to [...]

Last September 28 and 29, Nestlé Philippines conducted a seminar at the Nestlé Experimental and Demonstration Farm (NEDF) in Tagum, Davao del Sur. Nestlé, who is the manufacturer of the coffee branch Nescafé, held the seminar as a part of the ongoing memorandum of agreement between the company and the Department of Agriculture (DA) which [...]

A bright prospect for the Philippine coffee industry looms in the horizon, as the country might get new coffee varieties in a joint coffee project with Angola.
Flavio Fonseca, ambassador of the Republic of Angola said, “Our intention is to promote the increase in coffee production. We are identifying new areas for a development cooperation between [...]

A new method of drying fresh fish has been developed with the help of the new cabinet solar dryer created by Macondray Plastics, Inc. (Macplas), a local firm in Davao City who has been supplying the plastic bag requirements of banana plantations in Davao since the 1990s.
The cabinet solar dryer known as Helichaus was developed [...]

His profession was nursing, but his calling was different. Lito Arenas went back home,  after finishing a nursing course, to pursue something closer to his heart – raising mangoes in his hometown in Manaoag, Pangasinan.
That was years ago. Now, he is one of the biggest suppliers of mangoes in the country, which proves that he [...]

The new Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) law is expected to be signed by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on August 8, as per announcement by the Malacañang. However, the Congress has yet to ratify a conference committee version approved shortly after legislators took a break in early part of June.

Another company is investing into the renewable energy. This time it’s independent oil player Eastern Petroleum Corp., who is set to put up a $30-million ethanol plant in Isabela next year. The facility will have a rated capacity of 100,000 liters a day or 30 million liters a year. It is expected to be completed [...]

Textured or texturized vegetable protein (TVP) use is one way to save ingredients cost. Known as textured soy protein (TSP) for others, it is high in protein, low in fat and is quick to cook. TVP is made from defatted soy flour, a by-product of making soy bean oil. It is used as a meat [...]

Goats’ meat is essential to almost all the special occasions in the Philippines, like baptisms, weddings, and fiestas. Aside from this, goats are very popular to every Filipinos because of low initial capital needed in raising them, its fast multiplication and they can fit to the small hold farm conditions. Compared to other meats, goat [...]

Milkfish (Chanos chanos) is the national fish of the Philippines. It is locally known as “bangus.” Actually, Philippines ranks number one in producing milkfish. Indonesia and Taiwan follow in rank numbers two and three.
In Dagupan, Bangus culture is popular because it can stand diversities of temperature, salinity and quality of water. It can adjust well [...]

Through the process of bacterial fermentation of coconut water, a jelly-liked, transluscent food product is produced known as nata de coco. Nata de coco is soft and chewy, but it depends on how properly it is cooked. If not cooked properly, it would be hard to chew. It is commonly used as one of the [...]

The Saudi Arabia’s government will send delegates to the Philippines, along with some from the private sector, on May 5 to 10 to scout for prospective investments in the Philippine agriculture sector. According to the Department of Agriculture, 25 to 28 representatives will visit the country next week.

This year, the tobacco industry carries a lot of promise as it continues to flourish in spite of the country’s troublesome economy. Reports said that tobacco farmers have a bountiful harvest of quality tobacco leaves, which together with the good price this year, brings a lot of hope to those who are dependent in this [...]

Filipino has the ingenuity and the talent, Philippines has the resources. All that’s lacking is the government’s full support for our inventors and developers of alternative sources and renewable energies. If such is the case, we would no longer be dependent in oil producing countries for our energies, fuels and electricity.
Another proof of the Filipino [...]

Tilapia has long been a favorite fish by the Filipinos. Now, two more new products from this fish have been developed and these are the tilapia longganisa and tilapia tocino. Both are now already out in the market. Cagayan Valley, which is a major producer of tilapia, even developed a tilapia longganisa and tocino processing [...]

Choco Naga is one product that is yet another enterprise born out of a student’s feasibility project. Marian Gabrielle Bordado, 23, submitted a business plan as a requirement to pass her entrepreneurship course at the Ateneo de Naga University.
During her second year in college, they were required to establish their business. This she did together [...]