Sweet Business Outlook. Beekeeper Ricardo Bandala, 72, shows a colony of honey bees (inset) that can produce a gallon of honey per month. The honey venture owned by Jose Yap, Jr. of San Jose, Tarlac will be expanded to produce honey-based fruit juices and soap through a package of assistance under the Department of Science and Technology’s flagship Small Enterprise Technology Upgrading Program. So far, DOST’s Industrial Technology Development Institute formulated for this project three fruit juice variants with honey. (Framelia V. Anonas, S&T Media Service)
