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Bamboo is considered as an alternative to timber. This is one reason why science and technology is applied to further enhance its growth performance and ensure its sustainability. This i… Read More

Many Filipinos find swine raising lucrative among other livestock ventures. Aside from providing raisers with additional income, investment return also happens in a short span of time. In… Read More

Guyabano or soursop is one of the minor crops that is gaining popularity because of its economic uses. It is a nutritious fruit, rich in ascorbic acid, potash, phosphorous and calcium. The e… Read More

Dividend growth stocks have a number of buying opportunities to consider right now, thanks to the significant drop in the stock market to begin 2020. Even with the recent rebound, the S&… Read More

The Swedish International Cooperation Agency (SIDA) has ruled that its funding should never be used for “criminal activities” amid admission of Filipino entity Masipag that it su… Read More

Rice is and will always remain as one of the most important staple foods among Filipinos. For most of us, it is the one thing that satisfies and completes our every meal. However, the agricu… Read More

Why Oil Palm is Easy and Profitable to Plant By: Pablito P. Pamplona, PH. D. Recently, many farmers asked me what is the best crop to plant. With my experience as a farmer and agri… Read More

Cacao’s genes and physical characteristics are being looked into in a study by applying the latest technology in functional genomics in a bid to improve the country’s cacao indus… Read More

There are times when you need to change a video or compress MP4 from one format to another, and you do not understand what technique or apparatus to utilize. On the off chance that you are s… Read More

If you’re reading this wondering if you should stop using AES-GCM in some standard protocol (TLS 1.3), the short answer is “No, you’re fine”. I specialize in secur… Read More

By adding rice straw to the soil before planting the next crop, you can return nutrients to the soil, make the soil fertile and in the long run, cut down on fertilizers and improve the yield… Read More

The World Health Organization (WHO) has affirmed that genetically modified (GM) foods in the market have passed Codex food safety assessments and have not had records of adverse effect on hu… Read More

A farmers’ group is fast expanding its hybrid rice area to 100 hectares from only 30 hectares after experiencing a yield that gives them a two-cropping’s harvest from a swamp lan… Read More

Calauag, a municipality located in eastern Quezon, rears an abundance of coconut that covers more than 22,000 hectares. With the predominance of coconut in town comes the rising of yet anoth… Read More

Philippines can be a potential producer of cocoa. The climatic conditions and soil characteristics are conducive to growing cocoa. There is presently an increasing interest from local farmer… Read More

Likened to the popular Balsamic vinegar, but cheaper and affordable, Nipa palm salad dressing is now a common eye catcher at SM Naga, specifically in J-Emmanuel store. Developed by the Depa… Read More

Over the next decades, baby boomers will retire en masse and put social security system under severe stressOnly a handful of countries have already made their pension system demography-proo… Read More

Young cob corn (Zea mays L.), the newly developed corn, has been used by Chinese as vegetable for generations and this practice has spread to other Asian countries. It is used as ingredient… Read More

People have often associated eating organically-grown salad greens with healthy eating. And since leafy greens and vegetables are eaten fresh, quality of the produce becomes a high-priced as… Read More

The agro-climatic condition of a place is often associated with a particular fruit that is abundantly growing in that locality. For instance, the mere mention of the Cordilleras, with its hi… Read More

Building wealth and passive income is a long term journey. But it can be shortened. Not by reckless trading (I tried and failed), but by buying assets which grow fast and pay growing income… Read More

Nutritious and safe for one's health. These best describe coconut sap sugar—coconut's latest proof of its being the "tree of life." Coco sugar is derived from coconut sap or toddy… Read More

Today is a day for self-care, there is no time for depression. My Wellbutrin 150 mg and my body seem to be OK with each other. I am six weeks into the new medicine. It has also been t… Read More

Poor to zero germination of sown seeds is one of the major problems of farmers who practice direct wet seeding during rainy season. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500"]Photo by A… Read More

Account Net-Liq: $7,437.20SPX value: 3,479.73Shiller PE: 32.01   I was looking for opportunities where I can store my cash in my trading account in lieu of leaving it in the account, si… Read More

We are aware that YouTube is gradually becoming a significant method of advertising products and services. Therefore, it is essential to rake up video views and subscribers on YouTube to inc… Read More

Many people are used to honey hunting of wild bee colonies in the forest. But due to over-exploitation of the forest resources, there is a decreasing trend in the quantity of colonies in man… Read More

Corn is the second largest planted crop next to rice, of which 66% is yellow corn (YC). Around 90% of YC is used as feeds for livestock and poultry. It accounts for 50-60% of a typical mixed… Read More

Cassava (Manihot esculenta) has a positive effect on milk yield, researches show. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500"]Photo by willy_ochayaus [/caption] Through the Philippine… Read More

Sausage is one of the oldest forms of processed food, and is also called by names, frankfurters, frank, weenie, wienie, wiener, dog, and ted hot. A cooked sausage consists of a combination o… Read More

Account Net-Liq: $7,477.66SPX value: 3,426.96Shiller PE: 31.47   In my older post I wrote about the market high valuations and how you can mitigate the problem with valuation. You hear… Read More

The Philippines is poised to achieve a high average rice yield of 10 metric tons (MT) per hectare as it collaborates with China on the development of a Super Hybrid Rice that can potentially… Read More

The Department of Agriculture-Philippine Carabao Center (PCC) is adopting the DNA marker technology to improve its breeding program. That should contribute over the long term to r… Read More

Straw mushrooms (Volvariella volvacea Singer)- a type of edible tropical mushroom can be grown cheaply using rice straw or banana leaves as bedding material. Dr. Aliebusan from the National… Read More

Today, International Coffee Day, Nestle Philippines pays tribute to the country’s farmers for their dedication and hard work in growing coffee as a staple in Filipino households. N… Read More

The National Sweet Sorghum Program (NSSP) is consolidating investments for a 500 to 1,000-hectare land for sweet sorghum as bioethanol feedstock which has a ready market in the San Carlos Bi… Read More

It would take until the year 2022 for the global economy and market to fully recover, according to Pacific Investment Management Company, LLC (PIMCO), one of the world’s premier fixed… Read More

I mentioned this topic in my previous post. But since then I developed this “cash storing” a bit beyond the original post. In the older post, I mentioned that I was buying a shor… Read More

In comparing the terms boss vs a leader, many people often use the terms boss and leader interchangeably. In our competitive world, being a leader instead of a boss can boost your performanc… Read More

The government has awarded 30 enterprising groups that successfully adopted technologies on reforestation while promoting industries and jobs in bamboo, Falcata, talaba (oysters), “tik… Read More

Tilapia farmers claim that the biggest slice in their production cost is spent for commercial supplemental feed. This is because intensified tilapia production has resulted in growers’… Read More

A 50-hectare hybrid rice model farm will be put up to help rehabilitate Marawi City in a partnership of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) and SL Agritech Corp. (SLAC). [ca… Read More

The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has approved the patent for five Filipino-original “Suksuk” silk design whose production is being raised by a La Union agency to capture li… Read More

The rapid development in recent years of Asia’s livestock industry has been matched by the huge increase in the importation of livestock feed. Feed costs are not only a burden on the… Read More

The stock market gapped down more than 2% on renewed fear of the new strain of Covid. That is, what the media are telling us. I don’t think this is the reason for selling. The market w… Read More

The Social Security System (SSS) said its new contribution schedule and Workers’ Investment and Saving Program (WISP) will be implemented starting January 2021 pursuant to Republic Ac… Read More

At the moment, there is a very small dairy goat inventory, which is barely 6,379 head or 0.17% of the total goat population. Of this meager herd, only about 600 head are in the milk line, 70… Read More

While many of us have not even heard of adlai, this tall-grain bearing tropical plant from Poaceae (grass family), the same family to which wheat, corn, and rice belong, has been abundantly… Read More

The Social Security System (SSS) on Monday said that the scheduled increase in its contribution rate and minimum and maximum monthly salary credits (MSCs) is to ensure the continuous delive… Read More

Unknown to many Filipinos, Adlai also called Job's Tears (Coix lacryma-jobi L.) belongs to the family Poaceae or the grasses, the same family to which wheat, corn, and rice belong. But unlik… Read More

The Central Luzon State University is promoting mature feed products and feeding schemes towards enterprise, particularly in goats. Goat raising needs a year-round supply of feeds… Read More

Globe continues to scale up its network expansion as investments in its infrastructure are expected to increase further in 2021. The aggressive upgrades have already produced positive resul… Read More

Standing tall in the wild, adlai (Coix lacryma-jobi L.) can be easily overlooked due to its grass-like appearance that blends well with the other wild plants. But unlike weeds, the stem of a… Read More

The Department of Agriculture (DA) is carrying out a P6 million upland rice organic farming in Bicol which capitalizes on native varieties’ drought tolerance. It also aims to boost… Read More

Standing tall in the wild, adlay (Coix lacryma-jobi L.) can be easily overlooked due to its grass-like appearance that blends well with the other wild plants. But unlike weeds, the stem of a… Read More

Creating an excellent idea for a small business to start-up can prove a daunting task, especially with the apparent feeling that all the great ideas for business are already taken. However… Read More

Fashion blogging has evolved into a full-time job many people desire. However, they are unaware of the hard work that goes into growing a blog. So, they jump on the train clueless about this… Read More

The Philippines needs to put policies needed to bring to the poor genetically modified (GM) crops like the Vitamin A-rich rice to help solve worsening hunger problem globally. Food pro… Read More

Cassava (kamoteng-kahoy in Tagalog) is the third largest source of carbohydrates in the world. Among crop plants, the cassava plant provides the highest yield of food energy. Cassava root is… Read More

Cabbage (Brassica aleracea L. var. capitatacruciferae) is a leafy green vegetable grown densely-leaved heads. Closely related to other Cole crops such as broccoli, cauliflower and Brussels s… Read More