Archive for March, 2008
Next Entries »Raising Free-Range or “Galang” Chicken
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008Chickens raised and produced through open type? In western Mindanao, open-range type upgraded native chicken production is a common practice to increase the fowl’s protein requirement in a semi-commercialized enterprise. A demonstration farm is found in one of the research stations of DA-Regional Field Unit XI of the Western Mindanao Integrated Agricultural Research Center (WESMIARC) [...]
Raising Frogs for Meat
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008Have you ever tasted frog meat? If you grew-up in areas like Bulacan, Pampanga and Nueva Ecija with endless ricefields, frogs is a common dish. Be it fried, adobo, sinampalukan, it always tastes like chicken! Of course there are frog species that are edible, one of them is called “palakang bukid” (rice field frogs), the [...]
Native Bee Production
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008The native honey bee or the Asian honey bee (Apis cerana) are good pollinators of crops. They also produce honey, pollen and wax, all of which could be either directly used by farmers or sold in the market. Compared with the exotic European honey bee (Apis mellifers), our native honey bees are more resistant to [...]
Guide in Turkey Raising
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008Technical advances in turkey genetics, production, and processing have created a turkey which produces a pound of meat, using a smaller amount of feed, in less time than most other domestic meat-producing animals. All commercial turkeys produced today are the white broad breasted turkey breed. This breed was first used for commercial turkey production in [...]
Growing Cocoa – Part 1 of 2
Saturday, March 1st, 2008Cocoa is grown on trees The cocoa tree bears fruit on its trunk and branches. They are called pods. The pods contain seeds which are called cocoa beans. The beans are made up of a seed coat, a kernel and a germ.
Growing Cocoa – Part 2 of 2
Saturday, March 1st, 2008Choosing and preparing the plantation site Choosing the site 15. If a cocoa tree is to grow well, it needs more than anything else a soil · of good structure, · permeable and deep. The cocoa tree has tap- roots. The tap- root descends straight into the soil. The branch roots go down very deep. [...]
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