The DA Biotech Program is eyeing Mindanao as the center of the country's natural ingredients industry. Having identified Caraga's potentials to produce crops and plants to supply raw materials for natural ingredients, Alicia Ilaga, chief of the DA-Biotech Program said it is a matter of time before farmers who have expressed their willingness and eagerness to start farming for natural ingredients will finally find a different kind of gold right in their palms.
Subject:
biotechnology green gold poverty food production SME Quedan and Rural Credit Guarantee Corp. (QUEDANCOR) Department of Agriculture biocommerce biofuel tagum palm tree palm GM products genetically modified organisms (GMOs) biotechnology revolution BIONet Caraga Secura International Northern Mindanao Institute of Science and Technology NORMISIST tissue culture enzyme papain papaya food security hybridization income Caraga Region Bt corn plant hybrid pest-resistant food and feed
Material : biotech
Serial Title : BIOLIFE: a bi-monthly magazine on biotechnology
Publisher : Biotechnology Coalition of the Philippines,
Publication Date : September-October 2006
PR-AS
2006
BIC757
SEARCA Library
Printed