Archive for July, 2007
Next Entries »Growing Papaya
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007Papaya is a luscious fruit that has been taken for granted. The total crop area in the Philippines planted to papaya amounts to only 8,720 hectares or 0.1 percent of our agricultural land. Yet no one can deny its tastiness as a dessert or as an indispensable vegetables dish of various recipes. Papaya fruits are [...]
Growing Calamansi (a.k.a. Calamondin)
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007Calamansi or calamondin (Citrfortunella microcarpa) is a fruit tree native to the Philippines. It is the most commonly grown backyard tree among the citrus species. It can thrive in a wide variety of environmental conditions. It is a small tree with a height ranging from 2 meters to 7 ½ meters at maturity. Its broad [...]
Large-Scale Goat Raising in Tarlac Shows the Way
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007For ANGIE MENDOZA of Tarlac, City, goat raising started as a way of making a 3.5-hectare mango farm productive during its early gestation period when the trees are not yet bearing. Today, she has no less than 260 heads already, most of which are does, and yet she intends to have at least 200 does [...]
Summary of Cost and Return for boar and gilts/sows
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007Source: Kumikitang Kabuhayan eGroup (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kumikitangkabuhayan/) Loan Requirement per head of F1 (Landrace x Yorkshire) Gilt ( CY 2000 ) Gilt (5 – 6 months old) P 8,500.00 Breeder feeds for 12 months 11,498.00 Prestarter feeds for 3 months 7,200.00 Biologics and Medicines 511.00 Other cost (1%/mo) 1,020.00 —————— TOTAL P 28,729.00 Summary of [...]
Raising and Keeping Chickens – Part 2 of 3
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007Source: Better Farming Series 13 – Keeping Chickens (FAO – INADES, 1977, 48 p.) How to feed poultry To feed poultry well is important and difficult 35. In modern poultry raising you must take a lot of care in feeding the birds. You want to have birds that grow quickly and yield a lot of [...]
Raising and Keeping Chickens – Part 1 of 3
Tuesday, July 10th, 2007Source: Better Farming Series 13 – Keeping Chickens (FAO – INADES, 1977, 48 p.) Small livestock farming in the villages 1. Small livestock farming is common in villages all over the world. Everywhere you see around the houses numbers of sheep, ducks, pigs, and above all chickens. 2. The villagers raise all these animals in [...]
Cost and Return Analysis for Goat Raising
Monday, July 9th, 2007Economics Goat raising offers a good source of income among rural enterprisers. The following cost and return analyses from goat production of 10- and 25-doe levels under semi-intensive system, and for 50- and 100-doe levels under pure confinement system indicate profitability (Tables 18-22). The technical and financial assumptions were based on industry standard and from [...]
Tilapia Raising / Farming
Monday, July 9th, 2007One of the most important cultured fish in the country is the freshwater tilapia. It grows in the inlands. This fish can be sold readily in the local market and has a good chance for the foreign market. It gives ready supply for both the rural and urban families. There are many ways to raise [...]
Growing Watermelons
Monday, July 9th, 2007Watermelon, commonly known as “pakwan” in Tagalog, is probably native to Africa. It is mainly eaten as dessert fruit. The rind is made into preserves and pickles; the seeds are processed into butong pakwan. In 1982-83, the area planted to watermelon was 15,410 hectares with a total production of 75,650 metric tons of fruits; but [...]
Honeybee Culture under Forest Trees in the Cordillera
Sunday, July 8th, 2007Introduction Many people are used to honey hunting of wild bee colonies in the forest. But due to over-exploitation of the forest resources, there is a decreasing trend in the quantity of colonies in many areas of our forests. Instead of honey hunting, beekeeping as a livelihood had been introduced in the Cordillera as early [...]
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