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« Previous EntriesSheep Raising; A Profitable Venture
Saturday, February 4th, 2012A former banker resigned from the corporate world and found joy and profits from raising sheep If insomniacs mentally count sheep to be able to fall asleep, former banker Nilo Casas literally do that in his two farms in Cavite and Masbate to be able to calculate his profits. For 23 years, Casas, who is [...]
Balut for Food and Profit
Friday, February 3rd, 2012You have never been to the Philippines unless you have eaten balut! This is what most Filipinos tell foreigners who come to the Philippines for the first time. So, perhaps this must be the reason why the members of the rock band Switchfoot ate balut on stage at their concert in the country-to the delight [...]
Corn Coffee
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012We often think that illness brings nothing but problems and discomforts. Sometimes, the conditions that it caused lead its to healthier diet and promising agribusiness. This is exactly what happened to Alicia S. Paglinawan, general manager and producer of Sunrise Roasted Corn Coffee from Maygatasan, Bayugan, Agusan del Sur. She said that she was frequently [...]
Saluyot Into High-fashion Fabric
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012The lowly saluyot will debut on the fashion ramp last December as a premium, earth-friendly fabric. The Philippine Textile Research Institute (PTRI) will unveil the new fabric during a national conference in celebration of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) International Year of Natural Fibers. “We have weaved 80 percent polyester with 20 [...]
New Products from Calamansi Wastes Introduced
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012Calamansi Fruit is composed of 30 to 31 percent juice, which is used as flavoring, beverage and source of vitamin C. How about the remaining 69 to 70 percent? Void of juice, the peel, pulp and seeds are considered wastes, which are thrown away by households, food establishments and juice processor. These wastes, if not [...]
Pointers on Growing Rambutan
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012Rambutan has long been grown in Southern Luzon and parts of Mindanao. It has started to be grown in other places where people thought the fruit tree could not be grown, like Northern Luzon and many other places. Some are successful, some are not. Here are pointers on growing this exotic fruit. THE PLACE FOR [...]
Why Filipinos Should Cultivate Mushrooms?
Monday, January 30th, 2012The ancient civilizations of Egypt, Rome, and China knew of the importance of edible mushrooms as food. Egyptian pharaohs zealously kept the mushrooms for their own use, decreeing it was too delicate a morsel for commoners who could eat garlic! The Romans restricted mushroom consumption to the nobility. Later, convinced that mushrooms gave their soldiers [...]
Extracting Cash From Cashew
Sunday, January 29th, 2012In 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 [...]
Pekin Duck : Fast-growing Money-maker
Friday, January 27th, 2012One promising new money-maker for local investors is the Pekin Duckparticularly the F1 (first generation) ducklings of a superior genetic line from the Czech Republic that is now available locally. According to Dr. Erwin Cruz who is distributing the ducklings, this Pekin duck will usually attain a liveweight of 3.6 kilos in only 49 days. [...]
How to Make the Watermelon Square
Thursday, January 26th, 2012This is really, really easy to do. (Note: you may be able to use this technique to grow other stuff in the form of a square ( actually in the form of a cube) and apply the general idea to other shapes.) Step 1: Material and Tools You need 6, 8″ square, 3/8″ thick (or [...]
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