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Oishi, started in 1946 as Liwayway, [5] was originally a family-owned corn starch (Tagalog: gawgaw) and coffee repacking business. [1] The name of the business, "Liwayway," meaning "dawn" in English, was selected to reflect the optimism of the Philippines following the aftermath of World War II. [5]
Coron is the third-largest island in the Calamian Islands in northern Palawan in the Philippines. The island is part of the larger municipality of the same name. It is about 170 nautical miles (310 km) southwest of Manila and is known for several Japanese shipwrecks of World War II vintage. Because of its unique ecological features, the entire ...
Corn/maize is the second most important crop in the Philippines. 600,000 farm households are employed in different businesses in the corn value chain. As of 2012 [update] , around 2.594 million hectares (6.41 × 10 ^ 6 acres) of land is under corn cultivation and the total production was 7.408 million metric tons (8.166 × 10 ^ 6 short tons ...
Coron Bay is a well-known recreational diving region in the Sulu Sea in the western Philippines, between the islands of Coron and Busuanga in the Calamian Islands. Most of Coron Bay is in the Coron Island Protected Area and is a traditional fishing area of the indigenous Tagbanwa tribe. Coron Bay is famous for diving on ten Japanese shipwrecks.
However, processed food in which recombinant DNA or protein is dissolved in or removed during processing, such as soy sauce, soybean oil, corn flakes, millet jelly, corn oil, rapeseed oil, cottonseed oil, and others, do not have to be labeled. [14] Japan does not require traceability, and allows negative labeling ("GMO-free" and the like). [14]
Their Japanese identity may take on extremes, some have completely lost their Japanese identity while others have "returned" to Japan, the homeland of their forebears. There is also a number of contemporary Japanese-mestizos, not associated with the history of the earlier established ones, born either in the Philippines or Japan.
The Asian corn borer is most commonly found throughout Asia and Southeast Asia. More specifically, it is located in China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Lao, Myanmar, and Cambodia. [5] There are also a limited number in the Solomon Islands, Africa, and parts of ...
During the third financial quarter of 2021 Jagarico sales in Japan amounted to about 34.5 billion yen, and overseas sales are an increasingly important revenue source. [8] According to a 2017 survey by Keio Group, Jagarico was ranked as the fourth most popular snack in the Tokyo area. However, the sample size for that survey was not specified. [9]