Featured Articles:
What Lies Ahead for the Philippine Tobacco Industry
The Eating Out Market: Then and Now (Food and Agri Business Paper)
Newsline:
Economy grows by 6.4 percent in Q1
German agency to fund rice MIS project
DA to upgrade fruit packaging facilities
Corporate Updates:
Pepsi invests in more bottling lines
Puregold acquires Parco
Du Pont expands with a new corn facility
World Watch:
High US corn prices signal an impending shortage
Brazil pioneers low-carbon agriculture
Scientists trace kiwifruit bacterium to China
Product Peeks:
Rice deal awarded to Vietnam
Tuna output up with Pacific ban removal
Coconut to get P600M from PCA
CFA Staff Notes:
RP at risk of losing rice protection
Planting Vegetables Reduces Pests in Rice Fields
____________________________________
Center for Food and Agri Business
University of Asia and the Pacific
Pearl Drive, Ortigas Center
Pasig City 1605
Tel: (632) 637-0912 local 247
Fax: (632) 633-8349
http://cfa.uap.asia