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</font></font><a class="date"><em><font color="#666666" size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Posted 05 December 2008</font></em></a><br><br><a class="country"><font color="#336600" size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>PHILIPPINES</strong></font></a><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> <br>
1-ON LIVESTOCK BIO-ENERGY, BIO-POWER: DA EYES TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FROM BRAZIL <br>2-DISEASE-RESISTANT ABACA PROPAGATED OUTSIDE LABORATORY <br>3-MARRIAGE OF BIOTECH AND CO-OPS MEANS COMMERCIAL VIABILITY' <br>4-$30-M 'MALUNGGAY' BIODIESEL PLANT PUSHED <br>
<br></font><a class="country"><font color="#336600" size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>VIETNAM</strong></font></a><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> <br>5-ISAAA BOARD MEMBER RECEIVES 1ST UMALI ACHIEVEMENT AWARD <br>
<br></font><a class="country"><font color="#336600" size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>UNITED STATES</strong></font></a><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> <br>6-USDA PAVING WAY FOR GM CORN <br>
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<div align="left"><br><font size="2"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>1-ON LIVESTOCK BIO-ENERGY, BIO-POWER: DA EYES TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FROM BRAZIL</strong><br>by Melody M. Aguiba<br>04-December-2008 Manila Bulletin <br>
<br>The Department of Agriculture (DA) is working with the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corp. to transfer locally Brazil's expertise in livestock bio-energy and bio-power. <br><br>DA-attached Philippine Agribusiness Development Corp. (PADC) has started liaison with the Brazilian research center as the Philippines also wants to harness potentially significant energy resource from livestock waste that can generate biogas or electricity from methane capture. <br>
<br>"We are working on a memorandum of agreement on an exchange of technology in bioenergy with Embrapa," said PADC President Marriz Agbon in an interview. <br><br>The research center is also called Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria (Embrapa) which has expertise in bioenergy even as Brazil is now a world leader in innovative and environment-friendly fuel technologies, mainly sugarcane-based ethanol. <br>
<br>Technologies in Brazil also include production of ethanol from bagasse, a sugar milling waste, that can also be used for co-generation. <br><br>PADC has started looking at this partnership since the International Conference on Biofuel last Nov. 17 in Sao Paolo, Brazil which Agbon attended. <br>
<br>Other research groups which PADC is tying up with are the Center for Sugarcane Technology and the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association. <br><br>The government finds it advantageous to collaborate on technology transfer with Brazil since Brazil has also become a leader in Flexifuel cars which is a dual-fuel vehicle that can use an alternative fuel with its internal combustion engine that can run on say gasoline blended with ethanol or methanol fuel. <br>
<br>"Brazilian car manufacturers already produced 20 million Flexifuel cars from 2002 to 2008. There is no black smoke or the smell of pollution in the streets of Sao Paolo because of Flexifuel cars," said Agbon. <br>
<br>AGbon said the environment for investments in bioenergy in the Philippines has become attractive to investors with the passage of the Renewable Energy Law. This specially becomes true since independent producers or end-consumers of power have incentives to sell their excess power to the grid .<br>
<br><strong>------------------------------------------------------------</strong><br><strong>2-DISEASE-RESISTANT ABACA PROPAGATED OUTSIDE LABORATORY</strong><br>by Melpha M. Abello<br>03-December-2008 Manila Bulletin<br><br>
It is now possible to produce the disease-resistant abaca "Agbayanon" variety without using tissue culture. <br><br>The other method that can be used is clonal propagation wherein the new plants are produced outside the laboratory by using corm, according to tissue culture expert Michael Ibisate, who is also the research coordinator of the College of Agriculture, Forestry and Environmental Sciences of the Aklan State University (ASU) in Banga, Aklan,<br>
<br>Corm is the rounded underground storage organ of abaca consisting of swollen stem base. To start with, the corm from a disease-free plant is cut into pieces and then planted horizontally on the ground with bud on the surface. Ibisate said that he utilized the corms from the tissue-culture-grown abaca in the ASU germplasm. <br>
<br>He said that given proper care, the new suckers would grow in just a month from planting. Two months later, the plantlets will be ready for field planting. <br><br>He said that ASU has been mass-producing disease-free abaca for many years now through tissue culture. Recently, Ibisate experimented on clonal propagation which also produced good results. <br>
<br>Ibisate revealed that as of now, they have already produced close to 500 clones of ready-to-plant Agbayanon abaca which is sold at P25 per plant. Agbayanon variety is abundant in Aklan and is resistant to the dreaded abaca bunchy top virus which is ravaging the abaca plantations in Bicol and Leyte provinces. <br>
<br>Early this year, ASU received a P400,000 grant from the Aklan provincial government as part of its project on the expansion of abaca production in Aklan in collaboration with various agencies in the province. <br><br>
The amount will be spent on research and development on abaca, especially on the tissue culture technology in which ASU has state-of-the-art facilities. Fund was also allotted for the overall abaca development project, and in the near future, for abaca pulp production.<br>
<br>Aklan is the biggest abaca producer in Western Visayas, supplying at least 75 to 80% in bulk. Fiber Industry Development Authority said that Aklan's abaca fiber production in 2006 had reached 1,220,400 kilograms valued at P48,816,000. This amount is hoped to increase as the province aims to expand abaca areas to 3,355 hectares involving the municipalities of Altavas, Balete, Banga, Ibajay, Madalag, Makato, Malinao, and Libacao. <br>
<br><strong>------------------------------------------------------------</strong><br><strong>3-MARRIAGE OF BIOTECH AND CO-OPS MEANS COMMERCIAL VIABILITY'</strong><br>by Miguel R. Camus Researcher <br>01-December-2008 BusinessMirror<br>
<br>If scientific research is the engine that pushes human and economic development onward, then its commercial and financial viability should be the lubricant greasing its wheels. <br><br>But during the investors' forum, a session designed to attract financial interest in new biotechnology businesses, held at the start of the country's Fourth National Biotechnology Week, a member of academe involved with the cooperative (co-op) movement in the Philippines said the Department of Science and Technology ( DOST), one of the event organizers, may be missing its mark. <br>
<br>Dr. Virgina Teodosia, University of the Philippines (UP) professor and former administrator of the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA), a government agency which includes leading co-ops as members, said the DOST should put more focus in attracting co-ops as sources of investment. <br>
<br>She said there is little effort to target co-ops as the government and the established media organizations always look toward big-ticket investments like multinationals. She spoke to the BusinessMirror in an interview following the investors' forum. <br>
<br>She said member co-ops with the CDA have an estimated P500 billion in disposable funds. Latest figures from the CDA web site show that there were almost 21,000 operating cooperatives by the end of 2007, and, said Teodosia, their aggregate membership is roughly 4.7 million people. <br>
<br>The UP professor noted that these co-ops are actively seeking out investment opportunities. She narrated how a single co-op recently deposited almost P400 million in a leading Philippine bank, a common practice, she said, among co-ops as they are not aware of these DOST initiatives. <br>
<br>"They don't know where to put their money and they are not maximizing their funds because they don't know these programs," she said. <br><br>Science Secretary Estrella Alabastro said her department actively works with both cooperatives and individual entrepreneurs but based on her experience, the latter are more "driven." <br>
<br>"[Cooperatives] don't lose their shirts, if they fail," she said, compared with individual entrepreneurs. She added that she is open to meeting the "right" kinds of cooperatives. <br><br>And this is something Dr. Teodosia intends to do, which is to link the top 10,000 co-ops with agencies like the DOST.<br>
<br>"They will welcome these initiatives [by the DOST]," she said.<br><br><strong><em>Technology picks</em></strong> <br>Some of these initiatives were presented during the investors' forum and were selected for their commercial viability in the various sectors of biotechnology. <br>
<br>Dealing with health and safety was the DOST Philippine Council on Health Research and Development-based rapid detection kit for identifying E. coli, Salmonella, S. aureus and Listeria strains, which contaminate food, animal feed and water; and can be fatal to humans. <br>
<br>According to Dr. Susana Mercado from UP Los Baños, this technology has many advantages over competition, like its speed in detection, sensitivity, as well as its being a "cheaper" alternative to the conventional cultural method. <br>
<br>She highlighted as potential clients service laboratories, regulatory agencies, feed millers, food processors, pharmaceutical firms and water refillers.<br><br>Another product, developed by the National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology is a microbial rennet, which the developer claims is an effective milk coagulant. Milk coagulation is a fundamental process in cheese making. <br>
<br>Dr. Mercado said this technology may aid small to medium cheese manufacturers, and is being positioned as the "best quality and most efficient cheese coagulant" in the market. <br><br>She noted strategies such as product differentiation, and again, as a low-cost alternative to its multinational competitors.<br>
<br>She said that as an added external benefit, this product may aid the local dairy industry, as there will be more incentive to increase cow-milk production as demand for cheese increases. <br><br>Another technology initiative was focused on applications and commercialization of sustainable charcoal briquettes developed by the Ecosystems Research and Development Bureau under the Department of Environment and Natural Resources<br>
<br>Engineer Santiago Baconguis, chief research specialist involved in this project, said this approach was sustainable as their charcoal briquettes are made from abandoned biomass, such as used coconut husks, corn cobs, dried banana peelings and even peanut shells. Charcoal is traditionally derived from hardwood trees. <br>
<br>Dr. Teodosia said all these programs, especially with the sustainable charcoal briquettes, creates new livelihood enterprises. She said co-ops are seeking projects that aid communities, and that the projects showed in the National Biotechnology Week present an opportunity both for the DOST and co-ops.<br>
<br>"When they [co-ops] have a surplus, like they do now, they will want to put it in projects for the community," she said.<br><br><strong>------------------------------------------------------------</strong><br><strong>4-$30-M 'MALUNGGAY' BIODIESEL PLANT PUSHED</strong><br>
by Melody M. Aguiba<br>01-December-2008 Manila Bulletin<br><br>A biodiesel feedstock from "malunggay" oil is seen to emerge as a revolutionary biodiesel raw material as US's Green Energy Technology (GET) and Filipino firm Secura International Corp. (SIC) are investing $ 30 million in it. <br>
<br>A biodiesel plant using malunggay oil may rise in two years as a memorandum of agreement has been forged between the two companies to put up a plant that uses this indigenous plant's oil that enjoys accreditation from biodiesel authorities worldwide. <br>
<br>SIC President Danilo M. Manayaga said any type of vegetable oil can actually be used as biofuel feedstock. The malunggay biodiesel, in fact, complies with the US's American Society for Testing and Materials's (ASTM) biodiesel standard. This is based on several criteria including viscosity, cloud point, and oxidation. <br>
<br>"Why not? Any vegetable oil can be used for biofuel. Coconut is very expensive, this involves just a tenth of the price (of coconut)," said Manayaga in an interview at the Hybridigm Consulting's BioOutlook 2008. <br>
<br>However, a crucial factor to the success of this venture, according to Manayaga, is government's support for farmers' malunggay planting. <br><br>Or else SIC itself may resort to just focusing its efforts in other countries where government support for farmers is present. <br>
<br>"Farmers need help. They cannot borrow money, but we need more investors. It can't be just one or two (investors). Tanzania and Indonesia are inviting me there. They're helping their farmers, so we're moving there. If there's no support here, how can we move ? Imagine we already have a contract (to supply malunggay oil to a biofuel plant) by 2010. But without government support, what can we produce?" <br>
<br>Manayaga said he appeals for government's assistance particularly on financing farmers' planting. <br><br>"Nobody's planting. Government's support? (IT's) mere lip service, but it's not giving any money to farmers. <br>
<br>They should support the farmers because our investors will put up the plant. They'll only earn a little, but as business partners, they'll earn higher." <br><br>SIC is offering farmers a 25 percent business partnership interest in the project which is an important incentive as it will bring farmers P200,000 earnings per hectare per year. <br>
<br>Manayaga said there is a huge requirement for biodiesel in the Philippines with a 209 million liter requirement at two percent blend. The demand even becomes bigger when the possibility of a 20 percent blend-- as many vehicles are capable of receiving without engine retrofitting— is considered. <br>
<br>Farmers belonging to a consortium have started planting malunggay in targeted areas all over Tarlac, Camarines Sur, Mindoro, Negros, Caragao, and Lanao. <br><br>Investors can put up a crushing facility for biodiesel production where there is a 1,000-hectare malunggay area. A malunggay biodiesel plant can have a capacity of 10 million or 20 million gallons a year and can be expanded upon expansion of the feedstock plantation. It is estimated that one hectare of malunggay land can produce 8,000 liters of oil. <br>
<br>A million investment can produce 500 metric tons (MT) of oil per day. <br><br>Manayaga said SIC really targets a malunggay farm network of 500,000 hectares. But the world, he said, really needs 60 million hectares to meet biofuel needs. <br>
<br>"That's what's presented by (potential investor) CTI Biofuels. Even if you plant the whole Philippines, we can't meet the world market because it's a huge market. Our farmers will become millionaires (if they plant it on all our land)," he said. <br>
<br>The plant definitely has a ready market for the biodiesel even as the Biofuel Act grants incentives for this business. <br><br>"Oil companies are at the receiving end. Shell is willing to buy if we can produce," he said. <br>
<br>Fortunately, malunggay is a versatile plant that can grow anywhere, except in rice-growing, flooded areas. It can even grow in colder areas as proven by its presence in Tarlac lands that are above 1,200 meters above sea level. The origin of malunggay is in the Himalayan mountains, implying suitability in uplands, he said. <br>
<br>"Moringga (another malunggay name) is a kind of plant that's very suitable for rainfall of less than 1,000 millimeters a year. It doesn't need more care or much irrigation. There's minimal maintenance. Our farmers can plant it once and (keep a consistent) harvest." <br>
<br>While harvesting the oil from the seed, farmers can also tap the leaves as feed meal which is protein-rich. Malunggay leaves have lutein at 700 milligram per kilo of dried leaves. <br><br>"Imagine if we produce the oil, then we'll also have the meal. We won't anymore have to import soybean meal so cost of production will go down for pork and poultry which will become cheaper (in the market)."<br>
<br><strong>------------------------------------------------------------</strong><br></font></font><font size="2"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>VIETNAM<br>5-ISAAA BOARD MEMBER RECEIVES 1ST UMALI ACHIEVEMENT AWARD<br>
</strong>05-December-2008 SEARCA BIC News Release<br><br>Dr. Vo Tong Xuan, one of the Board of Directors of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA), was recently honored as the first recipient of the Dioscoro L. Umali Achievement Award for Agricultural Development. The Umali Achievement Award is the first of its kind, which recognizes individual initiatives for the promotion of agricultural development in Southeast Asia. The award was given during the 42nd anniversary celebration of the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) at the Umali Auditorium, SEARCA, College, Laguna, Philippines on 27 November 2008.<br>
<br>Dr. Xuan is a professor of Agronomy and rector emeritus at the An Giang University in Vietnam. He was conferred for his great contribution to the transformation of Vietnam's agricultural economy from a net rice importer to the world's second largest rice-exporter. Known in Vietnam as the 'farmer doctor', he successfully disseminated modern agricultural production techniques and introduced pest-resistant and high-yielding rice varieties to the farmers of Mekong Delta that led to the improvement of Vietnam's agricultural production.<br>
<br>The Umali Achievement Award is named after the late Dr. Dioscoro L. Umali, SEARCA's founding director and a Filipino National Scientist regarded as the prime mover of agricultural and rural development in Southeast Asia in his time. The award is a collaborative endeavor among SEARCA, the National Academy of Science and Technology, Philippines (NAST, Philippines), and the Dioscoro L. Umali Foundation (DLUF).<br>
<br>To learn more about the award, visit </font></font><a target="_blank" href="http://www.searca.org/web/announcements/dioscoro_umali_award/index.html"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">http://www.searca.org/web/announcements/dioscoro_umali_award/index.html</font></a><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.<br>
<strong><em>(Rochella B. Lapitan, SEARCA BIC)</em></strong><br><br><strong>------------------------------------------------------------</strong><br></font><font size="2"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>UNITED STATES<br>
6-USDA PAVING WAY FOR GM CORN<br></strong>by Sam Hananel (Associated Press)<br>01-December-2008 </font></font><a target="_blank" href="http://legacy.agweek.com/articles/index.cfm?id=12935&section=Farm&freebie_check&CFID=10882&CFTOKEN=89580703"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">AGWEEK</font></a><br>
<br><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">WASHINGTON — The U.S. Agriculture Department is moving to make it easier to grow genetically engineered corn for ethanol production, despite fears among safety advocates that some might end up in human food.<br>
<br>The agency is seeking public comments on a request to deregulate corn that is designed to produce a special enzyme, making it easier to convert into ethanol.<br><br>In its draft environmental assessment released in early November, the department's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service concluded that the corn, developed by Syngenta Seeds Inc., is safe.<br>
<br>"The scientific evidence indicates that there are unlikely to be any environmental, human health or food safety concerns associated with the GE corn," the agency says in a written statement.<br><br>Bill Freese, science policy analyst at the Center for Food Safety, says the alpha-amylase gene inserted into the corn could trigger allergies in people exposed to the crop.<br>
<br>"They intend it to be used just for ethanol, but it's also going to end up in the food supply," Freese says. "This is the first crop proposed for industrial use, and in a widely used food crop, we need to be extremely cautious."<br>
<br><strong><em>Under review</em></strong><br>The department will review any comments submitted by the Jan. 20 deadline to determine whether its safety assessment should change.<br><br>Deregulation of the genetically engineered corn would allow it to be grown anywhere without permits or other regulatory oversight from the Agriculture Department.<br>
<br>Demand for biofuels like ethanol is soaring because of federal mandates requiring the United States to use 9 billion gallons of alternative fuel annually by 2009. <br><br><strong>------------------------------------------------------------</strong><br>
</font><font size="2"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>GLOBAL<br>7-WORLD FOOD SHORTAGES MAY FORCE US TOWARD BIOENGINEERED CROPS<br></strong>01-December-2008 </font></font><a target="_blank" href="http://www.internationalsupermarketnews.com/index.php/the-news/178-world-food-shortages-may-force-us-toward-bioengineered-crops"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">International Supermarket News</font></a><br>
<br><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Surging costs, population growth, and drought and other setbacks linked to global climate change are pressuring world food supplies, while soaring prices on the street have triggered riots and raised the number of people going hungry to more than 923 million, according to U.N. estimates. <br>
<br>With food demand forecast to increase by half by 2030, the incentive to use genetic engineering to boost harvests and protect precious crops from insects and other damage has never been greater. <br><br>In Europe, Africa and Asia, governments that have resisted imports of genetically modified foods and banned growing such crops are loosening those restrictions. Meanwhile, they are pushing ahead faster with their own research, despite lingering questions over the safety of such technology.<br>
<br>"Influential voices around the world are calling for a re-examination of the GM debate," says C.S. Prakash, a professor of plant molecular genetics at Alabama's Tuskegee University. "Biotechnology provides such tools to help address food sustainability issues."<br>
<br>Genetic manipulation to insert desirable genes or accelerate changes traditionally achieved through crossbreeding can help make crops resistant to insects and disease or enable them to tolerate herbicides. Livestock similarly can be altered by inserting a gene from one animal into the DNA of another.<br>
<br>Many researchers believe such methods are essential for a second "green revolution," now that the gains from the first, in the mid-20th century, are tapering off.<br><br>Bioengineered crops are widely grown in Canada, Argentina and the U.S., where nearly all soybeans, most cotton and a growing proportion of corn are designed for tolerance to herbicides or resistance to insects. A virus-resistant GM variety of papaya is commercially grown in Hawaii and China.<br>
<br>"Biotechnology is bound to play an important role in the agriculture of the future" said Robert Zeigler, director of the International Rice Research Institute. Such crops "bring tremendous power and advantages to producers and consumers," Zeigler said, noting the potential savings from reduced use of farm chemicals and of fuel for the tractors to spread them.<br>
<br>Worldwide cultivation of bioengineered crops has expanded by over 10 percent a year for a decade, although by 2007 it still had reached only 282 million acres, an area about the size of Cuba, in 22 countries.<br><br>European countries face growing pressure, under World Trade Organization rules, to open their markets to GM products. Many among the EU's 27 member nations remain wary and, backed by consumers opposed to what some call "Franken-foods," are fighting to keep genetically altered crops out of their fields and supermarkets.<br>
<br>Overall, it seems best to see genetic engineering as just one of many strategies, including irrigation and soil improvements and better farm management, needed to increase productivity to ensure future generations will have enough to eat.<br>
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<a class="events_details"><font color="#666666" size="1" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>Dr. Dr. Carlito B. Barri, Professor of Chemistry (Ret.), College of Arts and Sciences, UPLB<br>SEARCA, College, Laguna, Philippines<br>
09 December 2008, 4:00 -5:00 PM</strong></font></a><br><br><a class="events" target="_blank" href="http://www.ishs-papaya2008.com/"><font color="#336600" size="1" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>2nd International Forum on Papaya</strong></font></a><br>
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