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Mutation Breeding of Philippine Avocado Although engaged in genetic engineering , the institute also uses mutation breeding, which is an alternative method of improving crop varieties. Small portions of avocado plant tissue (embryos) were allowed to grow (embryogenic cultures) and to differentiate into somatic embryos and shoots.
The Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic, and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCAARRD) is a council of the Department of Science and Technology of the Philippines government. The council aims to help national research and development efforts in agriculture, forestry, and natural resources of the Philippines. It does so by ...
Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) Animal Rehabilitation Center. The Philippine Animal Welfare Society established the PAWS Animal Rehabilitation Center (PARC) as the first animal shelter with an active adoption and rehabilitation program in the Philippines. It aims to find new homes for the dogs and the cats through its adoption program. [7]
The Department of Agriculture (abbreviated as DA; Filipino: Kagawaran ng Pagsasaka) is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for the promotion of agricultural and fisheries development and growth. [3]
Horse breeders try to produce fast racehorses through breeding programs. Conservationists use breeding programs to try to help the recovery of endangered species by preserving the existing gene pool and preventing inbreeding .
Philippine naked-backed fruit bat: Dobsonia chapmani Rabor, 1952: Caves and forest CR: Rickart's dyak fruit bat: Dyacopterus rickarti Helgen et al, 2007: Caves and forest EN: Dayak fruit bat: Dyacopterus spadiceus Thomas, 1890: Caves and forest NT: Greater nectar bat: Eonycteris major K. Andersen, 1910: Caves and forest NT Unknown: Philippine ...
The arrival of dogs in the Philippines were brought by some of the earliest colonists coming into the Philippine Archipelago. [4] There have been a differential treatment of dogs within each community in the Philippines; some are free to roam around structures and villages, while in traditional contemporary societies, dogs are consumed.
Antonio de Dios is a "bird aficionado" known in the relevant circles [1] from the Philippines who established in 1975 Birds International, Inc. (not to be confused with BirdLife International, an environmental non-governmental organization and not affiliated with the short-lived quarterly publication Birds International by Joe Forshaw), a company working in the field of aviculture.