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Seaweed : Rich Food From The Sea 15 May 2013 | 06:52 am
The Philippines, with a total coastline of 36,289 kilometers, has marine resources that provide food to millions of Filipinos. These resources include seaweeds, marine plants that grow abundantly in s...
The Fisheries of Batanes 13 May 2013 | 05:40 am
Batanes is the country’s northernmost and smallest province. Composed of eight islands, it has a land area of 20,928 hectares, marine waters of 4,500 square kilometers, and a population of about 17,00...
Mayor Advocates Organic Farming 23 Feb 2013 | 05:08 am
One municipal head who is really serious about propagating organic farming in his town is Mayor Leoncio “Jun” Evasco of Maribojoc, Bohol. We met him at an organic agriculture presentation at the Natur...
The Unseen Scourge Of Farmers (Part 1) 21 Feb 2013 | 04:57 am
You would think that 2005 Davao del Sur Outstanding Farmer, 2006 Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry, and Natural Resources Research and Development Magsasakang Siyentista, 2008-Department of...
Surigao Women Produce Nipa Shingles To Augment Income 19 Feb 2013 | 07:39 am
Brgy Villafranca Gigaquit, Surigao del Norte — When the women of this barangay were looking for ways to augment their husbands’ earnings, they hit on the idea of using their village’s foremost resourc...
Sprouts : Health Boosting, Quick, And Easy-To-Grow Veggies 17 Feb 2013 | 07:27 am
It’s a relatively cheap, highly palatable food crop that can be easily grown in very limited space any time of the year in any weather without soil, sunlight, fertilizer, or pesticide. It’s harvestabl...
What’s Being Done About Fusarium Wilt 15 Feb 2013 | 06:43 am
In the wake of the outbreak of Fusarium wilt or Panama disease, which is affecting some Cavendish banana plantations in Mindanao, government agencies that have to do with agriculture are mobilizing th...
Seaweed Industry Gets Big Boost 13 Feb 2013 | 07:34 am
Our good friend Max Ricohermoso is all smiles these days. The reason is that the industry he loves most got its biggest ever budget from the Department of Agriculture in 2013. Ricohermoso, of course, ...
Paraoakan Chicken Dispersal 8 Feb 2013 | 07:30 am
Paraoakan is becoming the choice of native chicken raisers. And it is for a number of good reasons. Paraoakan, of course, is the native chicken from Palawan. Of the several strains of native chickens,...
PhilRice To Host Patent Library That Will Help Many Researchers 5 Feb 2013 | 07:17 am
The Philippines Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) will host a patent library to encourage more innovation in rice science and development following a memorandum of agreement (MOA) it recently signed ...
