of the wealthy countries. This imply that it is not the best policy for the reduction of energy demand in the Philippines. The third policy is increasing the price of energy. The gist of this policy is there will be financial pressure to the consumers when the cost of energy is high. This is done by increasing the cost of fossil fuels until it is at par with the cost of the carbon-free energy sources. Increasing the cost of energy would then reduce energy consumption by improving the innovation for
Introduction Biomass energy, a form of energy from organic matter, accounts for about 15% of the Philippine’s energy mix. The Philippines, an agricultural country and an archipelago with growing urban centers, is rich in potential biomass resources. However, the Philippines is still dependent upon fossil fuels. While generating both fossil and biological fuels require processing of organic matter, fossil fuels release the carbon from deep underground that has not been actively released for millions
The Power of Travel The Philippines is a land of fun, sun, and sand—a tropical archipelago that is home to different people, animals, plants, scenes and sights. This is also home to CalEnergy Philippines and its employees, whose love for the environment and the community it serve helped them appreciate the country more. CalEnergy Philippines promotes local tourism to its employees as a way to sit back, relax and energize them on their way back to work. Aside from the relaxation and the opportunity
Machines used in the Farming Industry of the Philippines Mechanized agriculture is the process of using agricultural machinery to mechanize the work of agriculture, greatly increasing farm worker productivity. Automation level alludes to the measure of machine control utilized over the extent of land secured for cultivating. Philippines’ lack of access to efficient farm equipment and facilities has a great effect on the national post-harvest loss level, which averages 16 percent annually, Agriculture
UK and US. Moreover, Philippines was a Spanish colonization in 1565 so Spaniards played an important role in this country, as religion and language demonstrate. In fact, “in the current school year 2014-2015, a total of 77 public schools in the 17 Philippine administrative regions taught Spanish (…) to develop a plan to reintroduce the Spanish in public secondary schools” (MEC, 2015). 2. PHILIPPINES: GENERAL INFORMATION • Location Aguilera (2012) specifies that Philippines, a country in Southeast
Aguilera (2012) specifies that Philippines limited in the north by the Bashi Channel; on the south by the Sulu Sea and Celebes; on the east by the Pacific; and on the west by the South China Sea. The total area of more than 14,000 islands, islets and rocks is 309,615 square kilometres. In general, 94.01 millions was the population estimated for Philippines. The major cities are the capital, Manila, with 11.55 million in metropolitan area, Davao with 1.36 million and Cebu City with 0.80 million. These
here in the Philippines manufacturing Industry that helps the costumer/consumer and most specially us the marketing professional to gain or make some money, jobs, and etc. As we all know manufacturing sector is one of the most important sector in our industry in a way that as marketers gain and helps to improve this industry. It also includes the different challenges that our industry we’re facing now and some answers that might or can help us to improve what other think in our industry. This paper
Philippine IPs has been experiencing historical discrimination and marginalization from political processes and economic benefit for over a hundred years. They often face exclusion, loss of ancestral lands, displacement, pressures to and destruction of traditional ways of life and practices, and loss of identity and culture. In extreme situations, social and political discontent has erupted into armed conflict – the 40-year old armed conflict in Mindanao, involving secessionists and communist insurgents
The most important problems faced by the Kole farmers with respect to rice mechanization are the unavailability of agro machineries in time, the increased rent of the machineries and absence of service facilities, and skilled work force for the specific farm machineries. The Kole farmers’ perceptions about the multidimensional implications of rice mechanization are given as below. Social, economic and environmental impacts Table 3 shows the perceptions of farmers on social, economic and environmental
It is the anamorph or asexual state of Magnaportheoryzae established by Couch and Kohn (2002) as strains isolated from rice varieties and commonly known as the rice blast fungus. Magnaportheoryzae B. Couch (anamorphPyriculariaoryzaeCavara) formerly Magnaporthegrisea (Hebert) Barr (Zeigler et al., 1994 as cited by Zeigler and Correa, 2000; TeBeest et al., 2007; Zhang et al., 2011) has been described