Plans to use sugarcane for the cultivation of a number of new products and growth markets are under way in the Philippines. Having nearly reached self-sufficiency in sugar, industry representatives and regulators have laid out a roadmap with several objectives designed to raise exports, use sugarcane to produce bioethanol, increase its contribution...
With the Philippines’ government actively working to encourage its development, organic farming is an area ripe with opportunity for the agricultural investor. Indeed, while “going organic” may be a new and unfamiliar proposition for some of the country’s conventional farmers, proper support from the government and non-governmental organisations...
The merger of two of the country’s three remaining telecoms operators into a single market-dominating force in 2011 marked the latest stage in the consolidation of the sector. With just two providers left from six just two decades ago, the country’s mobile market is now effectively a duopoly.
Sustained government efforts to expand the Philippines’ high-value-added industries are gaining momentum, as new subsectors within the information and communications technology (ICT) industry are joining with flourishing business process outsourcing (BPO) operations in driving the local tech sector to prominence. In particular, the software industry...
The regulatory structure of the telecoms sector entered into a state of flux in 2011, a reflection of the dynamic market that the government is tasked with overseeing. This uncertainty is rooted in the reorganisation of the Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT), to which the primary regulator, the National Telecommunications...
Complicated and continuously evolving, the local telecommunications market ended 2011 with only two mobile players in operation. The current state of the industry is the result of a number of mergers and acquisitions that culminated in 2011 with the absorption of the country’s third-largest mobile operator, Digitel’s Sun Cellular, by the Philippine...
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