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CARAGA establishes BIONet-BIOCommerce
Center
A FACILITY designed to boost the trade of
agricultural biotechnology products has been established in this city,
considered to be the capital of the Caraga
Region. The BIONet-Biocommerce Center was inaugurated recently at
the College of Agricultural Science and Natural Resources building of
the Northern Mindanao State Institute of Science and Technology (NORMISIST).
NORMISIST is located at the heart of the Caraga Region, which is now in
the thick of strengthening the papaya and abaca industries in the four
provinces comprising the region.
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BIOCommerce Center sa abaca at papaya
bubuksan sa Butuan
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abaca ay isa sa mga pangunahing panamin na nagbibigay ng malaking kita
sa Pilipinas. Nagsimula ang paggamit nito sa paggawa ng lubid at mga
handicraft, at ngayon ay ginagamit na sa paggawa ng specialized paper
na kinabibilangan ng tea and coffee bags,
sausage-casing paper,
electrolytic paper, currency notes, cigarette-filter papers,
medical/disposal papers at high-quality writing paper.
Ang bansang
Alemanya ngayon ay gumagamit na ng abaca sa paggawa ng iba’t ibang
piyesa ng sasakyan. Napatunayan rin na ang abaca extract ay nagtataglay
ng anti-ageing at therapeutic properties. Mabibili na sa Estados Unidos,
bansang Hapon, at sa Europa ang abaca soap.
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UPLB rushes work
on breeding
virus-resitant abaca
EXPERTS from the University of the
Philippines-Los Banos (UPLB) are now working double time to develop
a strain of abaca that is resistant to the bunchy-top virus, the
nemesis of 1.5 million Filipinos who cultivate it. Dr. Anton Lalusin
heads the team that is rushing the propagation of the new strain of
abaca that has good fiber qualities and is resistant to the virus,
which stunts the growth of the plant and destroys the fiber. The
Institute of Plant Breeding (IPB) spearheads the work on the new
strain of abaca, known scientifically as Musa textilis, which
generates annual export sales of $76 million.
Actually, Lalusin said, the team succeeded
in producing a bunchy-top virus resistant plant but its fiber quality
was not at par with that derived from the pure bred plants. They have cultivated abaca anew and
harvest of the new plants may come next month. They hope the new batch
would not only be resistant to the bunchy-top virus but would also have
good fiber.
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