{"id":82944,"date":"2004-07-29T06:48:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-29T06:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a011a5fd-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2004-07-29T06:48:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-29T06:48:00","slug":"a011a60e-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/a011a60e-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"CREES food eye processing on Saipan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Marianas College Cooperative Research Extension and Education Service is actively pursuing the development of a food processing industry on Saipan by providing technical advice in the CNMI.<\/p>\n<p>The goal for the service is to develop an industry that will enhance economic development through value adding, and development of export opportunities.  <\/p>\n<p>Edgar Cocker, product development and marketing specialist, is calling interested individuals to take the opportunity to learn how to commercially process and prolong the shelf life of various local foods.<\/p>\n<p>Technical advice will be shared on how to maintain the natural quality for fruit jams, fruit juices and wines, tuba, pickles, hot pepper paste, noni juices among others.<\/p>\n<p>CREES will also assist with nutritional and microbiological analysis, bar coding, packaging and marking.  <\/p>\n<p>For information contact Edgar Cocker at 287-0561 or 234-5498 extension 1709. (Cassie DLG Fejeran)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Marianas College Cooperative Research Extension and Education Service is actively pursuing the development of a food processing industry on Saipan by providing technical advice in the CNMI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}