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2009
National Biotech Week pinaghahandaan
 TINUTUKOY
ng slogan ng 2009 National Biotechnology Week (NBW) na OK ang 5K
sa Biotech! ang limang Pinoy biotechnology targets bilang
suporta sa mga pangunahing soci-economic goals ng pamahalaan.
Ang mga ito ay ang Kalikasan, Kalusugan, Kagandahan, Kabuhayan
at Kaunlaran. Ang mga bagong breakthroughs sa teknolohiya ay
nagbigaydaan sa paggamit ng potensyal ng biotech para sa
pambansang kaunlaran, at ang mga inobasyon at aplikasyong ito ay
matutunghayan ng madla bago pa man idaos ang NBW.
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Trends in Philippine Biotechnology
 THE
country has been committed to promote modern biotechnology for
the benefit of its 90 million or so citizens for the last decade
or so and it has been slowly but surely working to redeem that
vow and make the Philippines a major player in biotech research
and development. For the record, the Arroyo administration has
decreed the annual biotechnology week to be celebrated every
November and it has set into motion the strict biosafety
standards and various protocols covering the development of
agricultural biotechnology products. Moreover, the Department of
Agriculture (DA) pushed the development of Bacillus
thuringiensis (Bt) corn and herbicide resistant corn
expanded production areas from a measly 100 hectares in 2003 to
400,000 hectares last year.
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DA unit funds
malunggay BIONegosyo project
 THE
National Agribusiness Corp.(Nabcor) has turned over a check worth P3.37
million to the Moringa Growers Federation of the Philippines Inc. (MGFPI)
to finance its Malunggay Bionegosyo Project. Nabcor said the project is a venture
of the company, MGFPI and the Department of Agriculture-Biotechnology
Program Office (DABPO). The ceremony was held at the DA Policy and
Planning Conference Room and attended by DA Undersecretary Segfredo
Serrano, DA-BPO director Alicia Ilaga, Dr.Vivencio Mamaril of the Bureau
of Plant Industry (BPI), Nabcor representative Ralph Mariano and members
of MGFPI headed by its vice president Ben Veneracion.
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