international research and technology development, tilapia farming in the Philippines expanded rapidly, with Central Luzon ponds (especially those in Pampanga, Bulacan, and Nueva Ecija) the main source of production since the 1980s.

For example, tilapia feeds produced by San Miguel Foods, Inc., in the Philippines contain the following ingredients: corn, soybean meal, fishmeal, poultry by-product meal, brewer’s yeast, corn gluten, rice bran, copra meal, brewer’s grain, wheat pollard, molasses, vegetable oil, salt, limestone, dicalcium phosphate, ethoxyquin, L-lysine, DL

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7 In 2002, freshwater tilapia ponds in Pampanga produced 43,411 t. This was a 48% increase over 2001 and comprised 66% of total national tilapia production from freshwater ponds (65,968 t) and 36% of all national tilapia production from aquaculture (122,316 t). The corresponding 2002 harvests from ponds in the other Central Luzon

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