VIASPACE takes Giant King Grass to the Philippines

October 15, 2014 |

In California, VIASPACE announced that Giant King Grass was shipped to and planted by its partner, Sagay Central, Inc., in Negros Occidental, Philippines. Sagay Central is a sugar milling and sugar growing company in the center of the Philippines sugar industry. It crushes 4,000 metric tons of sugar cane every day and produces 150,000 tons of sugar per year.  Sagay Central was founded in 1968 and its products include raw sugar, washed sugar and specialty Muscavado sugar for the domestic market and export.

The Giant King Grass was harvested from the VIASPACE nursery in Southern California. It was inspected by the US Department of Agriculture to meet the conditions of the SPS Import Clearance of the Philippines Department of Agriculture. The US Department of Agriculture found the Giant King Grass to be free of pests and disease, and issued the required phytosanitary certificate. The Giant King Grass planting material was sent by airfreight to Manila where it cleared customs, and then was forwarded by ferry to Negros.

 

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