MANILA, Philippines - The culture of prawns, crabs and milkfish or tilapia in fishponds entails so much capital, serious planning, focus, diligence and a lot of hard work.
MANILA, Philippines - A government agency that provides technical assistance to the country’s rice farmers is out to help agribusinesses determine their social return on investment (SROI) as a measure of their true value and their socioeconomic impact on the host community.
The electronics industry, the biggest contributor of export dollars to the country, is working to diversify its market and product range, in an effort to get out of its current slump.
THE DAY UNITED States Ambassador to the Philippines Kristie A. Kenney launched a new Internet service in Zamboanga City, another Mindanao city was very much on her mind.
MANILA, Philippines - The global economy is still in a crisis. Nonetheless, there is a growing consensus among economists that the ongoing turmoil—the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s—is already easing.
MANILA, Philippines - Chikka.com, the popular Internet gateway to texting mobile phones, now supports free SMS to any mobile phone in the United States.
MANILA, Philippines - Two government agencies and a business group – the Philippine Council of Students in Intrapreneurship (PCSI) – signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) that aims to boost community projects that would provide livelihood opportunities dubbed “Youth Entrepreneurship Support Project (YES).”
MANILA, Philippines - The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is hoping to attract more investments in the forestry sector and is prepared to review and revise some of its outdated policies to facilitate and encourage more domestic and foreign investments.
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is granting the Philippines $66 million or about P3.05 billion in soft loan for agroforestry and rural development projects in the Cordillera Administrative Region.
MANILA, Philippines – The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) and the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCARRD) have inked a deal to conduct a study on socio-economic effects of climate change in the Philippines.
