Promoting pigeon pea coffee as a nutritious alternative beverage explored

Friday, March 11th, 2011

As the national agriculture research and development (R&D) continuously discovers potential agricultural crops like pigeonpea, a lot of nutritious products are being developed. Pigeon pea, locally known as kadyos, functions both as food and forage crop. It is also used as cover crop for controlling soil erosion due to its strong woody tap root that [...]

Underestimate not the lowly camote

Friday, March 11th, 2011

The 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 [...]

Ratooning rice is advantageous

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

Following a large scale rice ratooning project in Ormoc City where some 500 hectares of irrigated rice farms last March to May, the Ginintuang Masaganang Ani (GMA) program is bent on pushing the adoption of the technology up to the year 2013. Dr. Frisco Malabanan, GMA rice program director, said that the ratooning project pushed [...]

Weather-sensitive crops thrive in demo farm

Saturday, March 5th, 2011

Weather-sensitive crops thrive in demo farm LEGAZPI CITY—Aquinas University of Legazpi (AUL) has implemented a project, dubbed “Urban Agriculture through the High-Value Commercial Crops Techno-Demo Farm” within its expansive campus here. The project features a 60-square-meter greenhouse where vegetables highly sensitive to rain and changes in temperature like broccoli, lettuce, cauliflower and honeydew melon are [...]