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Tuesday, November 1st, 2011Background The importance of cassava as a staple food in Africa has continued to grow because it possesses certain properties, such as tolerance to drought, and poor soils and even neglect. It is grown in over 30 African countries. Nearly 200 million people rely on cassava as a staple food, each person consuming an average [...]
How to Make Fish Boxes
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011Fish boxes This describes how insulated fish boxes can be easily constructed from cheap, locally available materials. There are various methods of storing fish in containers, both at sea and on shore. However, fish are often damaged. Boxes protect the fish during transport and enable the fisherman or seller to ice the fish efficiently. This [...]
Methanol Production
Sunday, October 23rd, 2011Methanol was first produced as a by-product in the manufacture of charcoal through the destructive distillation of wood, with yields of 12-24 liters per ton of wood. Most methanol today is produced from natural gas. In principle, many carbon-containing materials may be substituted for natural gas as starting materials. These include (in addition to wood) [...]
Developing forage technologies with smallholder farmers: how to select the best varieties to offer farmers in Southeast Asia
Sunday, October 23rd, 2011Before you start … What are forages? Forages are grasses, herbaceous legumes and shrub/tree legumes that can be used for feeding animals. They can also be used for better management of natural resources including erosion control, soil fertility improvement and weed control. This booklet emphasizes forages that are being used successfully by smallholder farmers. Often [...]
Ethanol Production
Saturday, October 22nd, 2011The preparation of ethanol from cellulose-, starch-, and sugar-containing raw materials involves the following general steps: Pretreatment-the physical or chemical conversion of the raw material to a hydrolyzable substrate. Hydrolysis-the enzymatic reaction that converts the starch or cellulose to sugars. Yeast fermentation-the conversion of sugars to ethanol and carbon dioxide. Purification-the separation of ethanol from [...]
Golden Rice battles blindness
Friday, October 21st, 2011AS someone who spends long, unpredictable hours in developing Golden Rice, scientist Dr. Antonio Alfonso has been described by his colleagues at the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) as “Mr. Patient.” Alfonso was tapped as early as 2004 to lead a research team that will develop the world’s first vitamin A-fortified, genetically modified (GM) rice [...]
GM mosquitoes mulled vs dengue
Thursday, October 20th, 2011A DENGUE scare occurred in the Philippines in the last couple of months what with the big number of cases and harrowing testimonies of dying patients reported in the media. The Department of Health (DOH) National Epidemiology Center said the cases have reached 45,333 with 267 deaths from January 1 to August 6, although it [...]
Clean water for evacuation centers, lotion vs dengue at young inventors’ exhibit
Thursday, October 20th, 2011MORE than 450 young Filipino inventors and professionals exhibited their inventions that aim to help address some major concerns in the country. Technological University of the Philippines (TUP) College of Electronic Engineering Technology third year students presented a prototype that would give clean drinking water and lightning system with the use of solar energy in [...]
Health-promoting approach to tap Philippine indigenous plants
Saturday, October 15th, 2011The Philippines is home to at least 13,500 species of higher vascular plants, indicating the high variety and variability of living organisms in this country. It holds the reputation of being the only country in the ASEAN region identified as a biodiversity hotspot (ACB, 2009). With this distinction, it is not difficult to imagine that [...]
Promising results from sweet sorghum as source of biofuel places Phl in a good spot
Saturday, October 15th, 2011With the recent developments in the country wherein government agencies are looking into fuel feedstocks that have high potential for commercialization, sweet sorghum has risen to fame with its promise as an alternative source of biofuel. One of the government agencies that have set its priorities on sweet sorghum is the Bureau of Agricultural Research [...]
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