Lawyer Uses His Legal Know-How to Help Poor Farmers
He is not the type of lawyer who relishes being in the legal limelight while showing of his skills in law. Instead, he uses his legal knowledge to help poor rice farmers and protect the environment – a...
View ArticleAn Integrated Organic Farm in the City
There was much fuss last year behind the Negros Occidental provincial capitol located in Bacolod City when hundreds, or maybe more than a thousand, squatter families were removed from this 5-hectare...
View ArticleCorn Farmers Continue to Succeed Despite soaring price of farm inputs
Corn grain price fluctuations during the peak harvest in Mindanao has dampened the spirits as well as the livelihood of many Filipino farmers. This sad development in the corn sector is aggravated by...
View ArticleBob Cuenca : Getting Ahead
Being a Negrese, Roberto “Bob” Cuenca has all his life been involved in traditional agricultural practices of the province—growing sugarcane and breeding fighting cocks in Guintubdan, La Carlota City....
View Article“Tipping Point” Concept of Pig Disease
There is a saying, “when a butterfly flaps its wings in one place, a tsunami may occur in another place.” This is obviously an exaggeration, but the point is that small things can have great effects....
View ArticleSoils Mapping Is Very Important
Recently we had the good fortune of joining a dinner with Dr. William Dar, the director general of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Hyderabad, India....
View ArticleNuclear Techniques Increase Farm Profits
Nuclear applications can benefit agriculture by reducing water and nutrient losses by almost 25 percent without adversely affecting the overall yield of rice and corn, the Philippine Nuclear Research...
View ArticlePhilRice To Host Patent Library That Will Help Many Researchers
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...
View ArticleParaoakan Chicken Dispersal
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,...
View ArticleSeaweed Industry Gets Big Boost
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,...
View ArticleWhat’s Being Done About Fusarium Wilt
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...
View ArticleSprouts : Health Boosting, Quick, And Easy-To-Grow Veggies
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 harvestable...
View ArticleSurigao Women Produce Nipa Shingles To Augment Income
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...
View ArticleThe Unseen Scourge Of Farmers (Part 1)
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...
View ArticleMayor Advocates Organic Farming
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...
View ArticleThe Fisheries of Batanes
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...
View ArticleSeaweed : Rich Food From The Sea
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...
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