Vietnam holds 0.78 percent of the world’s market share in 2005, higher than the Philippines’ at 0.54 percent.
China remains the leading wood furniture supplier in the world with 11.9 percent of market share, with Vietnam following Malaysian, Indonesia and Thailand regionally.
Vietnam is now considered the emerging rival in the market, with low production costs and [...]

Rice, coconut, mango bamboo, and abaca were named top priority commodities for technology intervention over the long term with a P19.45-billion budget under the Philippine Agriculture (PA) 2020 program to be launched by government this semester.
Dr. Albert P. Aquino, Socio-Economics Research director of the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry, Natural Resources Research and Development (PCARRD), [...]