PhilRice to Pinoys: Eat less rice, more camote
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011SCIENCE City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija — The Philippine Rice Research Institute has this piece of advice to Filipinos: Eat less rice and instead feast more on sweet potato, cassava, banana and other crops to help contribute in attaining national food security and rice self-sufficiency within three years. Dr. Flordeliza Bordey, a PhilRice economist and [...]
Underestimate not the lowly camote
Friday, March 11th, 2011The camote or sweetpotato is more important than you think in ensuring food security. It is providing a decent source of income even for the lowly farmers who don’t have much capital to spend in their farming. A few weeks back, we wrote about what’s new in sweetpotato after visiting the PhilRootcrops at the Visayas [...]
