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Posted on May 6, 2008 - Filed Under Harvest Time, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Craving for mushroom turns into a thriving agribusiness
By Sosimo Ma. Pablico
Eleven years ago, a mechanical engineer in San Leonardo, Nueva Ecija craved for mushroom but was not able to buy any because no one was culturing it. This prompted him to look for mushroom spawns instead so that he would produce the mushrooms himself. [...]
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Posted on April 27, 2008 - Filed Under Harvest Time, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Public investments needed in improving rice productivity: III
By Sosimo Ma. Pablico
So what now are the challenges to the “good news”?
Dr. Castillo mentioned that along with investments in improving rice productivity, efforts must be exerted to manage the denominator of the rice-population equation, which is rice consumption of the population. Rice production is the numerator [...]
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Posted on April 21, 2008 - Filed Under Harvest Time, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Public investments needed in improving rice productivity: II
By Sosimo Ma. Pablico
Dr. Castillo’s arithmetic calculations also showed that only 25 of the 97 released varieties ranked among the top 10 in popularity among farmers (1991-2002) over three wet seasons and three dry seasons.
Among the most popular top 10 varieties, 14 are from IRRI (IR64, [...]
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Posted on April 15, 2008 - Filed Under Harvest Time, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Public investments needed in improving rice productivity: I
By Sosimo Ma. Pablico
The message of all this arithmetic is clear. Without investments in improving rice productivity and efforts to manage the denominator of the rice-population equation, along with a focus on local-level potentials for growth, we will have to “run even faster just to stay in [...]
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Posted on April 6, 2008 - Filed Under Harvest Time, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Biogas Generation and Durabloom Production at Wellisa Farms
By Sosimo Ma. Pablico
THE PHILIPPINES won’t have much problem with methane gas emission if poultry and swine farms have their own biogas digesters for swine and use the sludge together with the poultry manure for the production of bio-organic fertilizer. Just like what Wellisa Farms in [...]
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Posted on March 31, 2008 - Filed Under Harvest Time, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Organic Agriculture and Certification now pushed
By Sosimo Ma. Pablico
Two years after Executive Order 481 was signed and declared that it is a national policy to promote organic agriculture nationwide, the Department of Agriculture, through the Bureau of Soils and Water Management (BSWM), now appears to be all out in the promotion of organic agriculture. [...]
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Posted on March 24, 2008 - Filed Under Harvest Time, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Sprouted pigmented rice a rich source of nutrients
By Sosimo Ma. Pablico
Aside from the usual boiled rice and champorado prepared by housewives for their respective family, they can also prepare dishes from sprouted pigmented rice and at the same time provide more nutrients for their family members.
Food chemists of PhilRice (Philippine Rice Research Institute) [...]
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Posted on March 17, 2008 - Filed Under Harvest Time, Opinion | Leave a Comment
PhilRice comes up with submergence tolerant line
By Sosimo Ma. Pablico
A RICE line that could withstand complete submergence for at least two weeks has been developed by the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice).
This line may very well be one of PhilRice’s answers to the adverse effects that would be brought about by climate change, which [...]
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Posted on March 10, 2008 - Filed Under Harvest Time, Opinion | Leave a Comment
High hopes with Durabloom among Bayambang farmers
By Sosimo Ma. Pablico
CORN FARMERS in San Gabriel, Bayambang, Pangasinan cultivating 301 hectares are placing their stakes on the bio-organic fertilizer Durabloom as they now witness the impressive performance of the crops of two farmer leaders.
Their centers of attention are the corn crops of Edgardo Abaya in Barangay [...]
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Posted on March 3, 2008 - Filed Under Harvest Time, Opinion | Leave a Comment
A Pangasinense salvages losing poultry farm
By Sosimo Ma. Pablico
A NATIVE OF PANGASINAN who is a graduate of Ateneo de Manila has shown his feat by salvaging a losing poultry breeding farm, transforming it into a profitable broiler farm earning at least P5 million a year.
Of all people, Albert Quiogue, 51, who traces his roots [...]
