PINEAPPLE peelings from fruit giant Dole Philippines Inc. (Dolefil) has lately found its way to Japan for use as complimentary feed stock for cattle there.

POWER consumers in General Santos City and its neighboring areas stand to save as much as P0.95 per kilowatt hour once the Alcantara Group-led coal-fired power plant goes into commercial stream probab

HOPES are flying high for better tuna export performance after the formal launching of a P5.3 million private-run laboratory facility designed to detect acceptable histamine and microbial contents on

KORONADAL CITY -- Crop protection experts from Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) have started treatment in parts of Lutayan town in Sultan Kudarat province infe

THE City Government of General Santos has proposed a sisterhood agreement with the western province of Solomon Islands in a bid to boost each other's fisheries-based industries.

KORONADAL CITY -- The devastating Panama disease afflicting banana plants has reared its ugly head in a portion of Central Mindanao region, the regional Department of Agriculture admitted on Wednesday

TUPI, South Cotabato -- Farmers of an indigenous banana variety have been issued accreditation by an international organic certification body to ship their products to the European Union and the Unite

INDEPENDENT oil player Jetti Petroleum Inc. has expressed interest to expand in General Santos City, where stakeholders have long been complaining of higher petroleum prices.

GUMASA, Sarangani -- Dr. Delfin Besquillo traded his family businesses in Metro Manila for a beachfront in Gumasa, Glan.

THE biggest hospital in General Santos City, the St. Elizabeth Hospital, recently inaugurated its new building with a project cost of at least P35 million.

THE search for outstanding local entrepreneurs has started as General Santos City girds for its annual Yabong Malilit na Negosyo (Yaman-GenSan) business month celebration in the middle of the year.

LOCAL tuna fishing companies that went to Palau recently failed to forge joint venture agreements with their counterparts there, an industry official admitted Wednesday.

KORONADAL CITY -- In a bid to cut unemployment of registered nurses amid the global financial crunch, the National Government has set aside P21.3 million for temporary employment of professionals in s

OFFICIALS from the Australian Embassy and Sagittarius Mines Inc.

ALCANTARA-led Conal Holdings Corp. could not achieve its original target of running a 200-megawatt coal-fired power plant at a tune of $450 million by 2011, a senior company executive admitted.