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Extracting Cash From Cashew

admin — Sat, 08 May 2010 02:17:41 +0000

In recent years, more and more people are eating cashew nuts. The reason: health experts and nutritionists considered it as “nature’s vitamin pill.”
In the Philippines, many farmers are reluctant to venture into tree farming because it does not provide them immediate returns, unlike the growing of agricultural crops. But in the long run, tree farming [...]

National Seed Industry Council Approves Asha Peanut For Commercial Planting

admin — Sun, 02 May 2010 13:30:48 +0000

Finally, Asha peanut is now a commercial variety recommended for local planting following the recent approval from the National Seed Industry Council (NSIC) of the Bureau of Plant Industry. It is registered as NSIC 2009 Pn 15.
Rose Mary G. Aquino of the Cagayan Valley Integrated Agricultural Research Center (CVIARC) of the Department of Agriculture Region [...]

Producing Your Own Seeds

admin — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:09:36 +0000

The Mindanao Baptist Rural Life Center (MBRLC) Foundation, Inc. recommends the following steps in producing our own seeds.
In Genesis chapter 1, 1 verse 30, God told Adam and Eve, “I give you every green plant for food.” And it was so. The propagation of plants is basically divided into two types: the sexual (or propagation [...]

DA Urges Farmers To Take Measures Against El Niño

admin — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 02:30:44 +0000

Farmers were urged to take measures to lessen the effects of El Niño on crops and livestock, especially when the dry spell intensifies in the coming months.
Engr. Ric Oblena and Angel Enriquez, regional executive director and regional technical director respectively of the Department of Agriculture in Central Visayas (DA-7) made the call during the recent [...]

Rubber Disease Enters RP; Found In Mindanao

admin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:50:02 +0000

A rubber disease which affected many plantations in Sri Lanka in the mid 1980s has entered the Philippines.
The leaf spot disease is found and documented recently at the University of Southern Mindanao (USM) by plant pathologist Dr. Naomi G. Tangonan and researchers Jasmine A. Pecho and Elaine Genivive G. Butardo. It has affected rubber nurseries [...]

Alternative Way of Reproducing Mushroom Spawns Developed

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:44:33 +0000

A contractual worker of the local government of Tarlac has developed an alternative way of reproducing mushroom spawns and other innovations in mushroom culture.
That’s Pablito Saiiniento of Dau, Mabalacat, Pampanga. He found that ipil-ipil or kakawate twigs can be used as a substrate in multiplying fungus mycelia or mushroom spawns. When made into wood chips, [...]

Arrowroot Also Has Potential

admin — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:11:18 +0000

Arrowroot is probably one of the most neglected crops by our government agriculturists and researchers. But one lady entrepreneur is really obsessed in making this crop a winner that could catapult her province to prominence.
The lady is Mrs. Carmelita Rejano-Reyes, a chemistry graduate who opted to take over the operation of the bakeshop that her [...]

The Truth About Aerial Spraying

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:48:50 +0000

Aerial spraying is recognized as a method or standard means of pest control, crop management, and fertigation as expounded in agricultural modernization.
As early as 1968, the Philippines already had 10 aircrafts used in aerial spraying of export bananas, the Cavendish variety. Yet Russia that time already had 7,000, while the United States had 5,700, and [...]

New Bean Variety Creating Waves

admin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:00:08 +0000

This high-yielding bean is fast shooting to “stardom” in the vegetable world.
Named Condor Negrostar, this long bean variety was bred and developed by Allied Botanical Corp. (ABC) at its research facility in this Pangasinan town situated almost 200 kilometers northeast of Manila.
“The uniquely purple-tipped pod variety is very prolific and very ideal for off-season planting, [...]

Philippines Investment Opportunity: The Pili Nut

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:56:32 +0000

Investing in Philippine pili nut trees might be an overlooked opportunity due to the lack of media exposure.
Philippines – February 1, 2010 – “One of the best Philippines investments might be the organic farms growing pili nuts; pili trees can give a harvest for up to 100 years” according to Will Irwin who is currently [...]