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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012MANILA, Philippines — How can vegetable farmers in a desert produce 300 tons of tomatoes in one year per hectare? They don’t have fertile soil and they have only little water, yet the Israeli farmers in Arava , the southernmost part of the Negev desert in Israel, are producing just that. The amazing feat is [...]
Darag Native Chicken
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012“Native chicken has the great potential of becoming a big industry,” words of Dr. Ricardo A. Provido, a successful agricultural entrepreneur and the present chairman of the Regional Agricultural and Fisheries Council (RAFC) Region VI, as he shared his experiences and marketing ideas in a recent interview. It’s the distinct taste of the Darag that [...]
PhilRice study on water savings tech cited
Saturday, May 12th, 2012SCIENCE CITY OF MUÑOZ, Nueva Ecija—Studies of the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) on water-saving technology and improving unproductive soils were recently recognized during the 62nd Annual National Convention and 23rd Philippine Agricultural Engineering Week held in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan. Hosted by the Philippine Society of Agricultural Engineers, the scientific gathering took note of [...]
Agricultural Bacteria: Blowing in the Wind
Friday, May 11th, 2012It was all too evident during the Dust Bowl what a disastrous impact wind can have on dry, unprotected topsoil. Now a new study has uncovered a less obvious, but still troubling, effect of wind: Not only can it carry away soil particles, but also the beneficial microbes that help build soil, detoxify contaminants, and [...]
Tips to back off herbicide resistance
Thursday, May 10th, 2012A herbicide-resistant weed or 2 here and there is inevitable in today’s crop production systems. It’s going to happen. Now, whether those 1 or 2 weeds turn into widespread resistance that threatens your crop’s yield potential is an entirely different matter, one that poses one of the greatest challenges in raising corn and soybeans today. [...]
No rice importation next year—DA
Thursday, May 10th, 2012PILI, Camarines Sur—Filipino farmers are ready to produce all the rice required to make the country self-sufficient and make importation a thing of the past by next year, according to the Department of Agriculture. “We will have enough rice sans importation in 2013,” Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala said in a statement released here by the [...]
Revenue from abaca exports down 8.7% in Jan.-Feb.
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012EXPORT receipts from abaca shipments went down by 8.7 percent to $19.95 million in the first ?two months of the year on the back of lower demand for abaca products such as abaca fiber. Figures released by the Fiber Industry Development (Fida) showed that in terms of revenues, the shipment of abaca fiber suffered the biggest year-on-year [...]
PHL firm to start palm-oil production in Zambo Norte
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012A FILIPINO company plans to start a palm-oil plantation in Zamboanga del Norte for the production of palm oil and dried palm kernel. The project is expected to reduce the country’s dependence on imported palm oil and palm kernel by-products. Zanorte Palm Rubber Plantation’s proposed project, with a budget of P737 million, was recently granted [...]
Some Questions regarding the Philippine Rice Industry
Saturday, April 28th, 2012Has palay production in the Philippines increased over the years? Yes. Palay Production in the Philippines has tripled from 5.32 million tons in 1970 to a peak of 16.82 million tons in 2008. However, a couple of strong typhoons caused a slight decline in palay production in 2009 to 16.26 million tons. Has rice [...]
Ban on poultry from Austria lifted
Friday, April 27th, 2012THE Philippines has lifted the six-year ban it imposed on poultry meat and other poultry products from Austria after the government got confirmation that it is already free from the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). The Department of Agriculture (DA) issued Memorandum Order (MO) 11 series of 2012, which authorized the lifting the ban on [...]
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