Category: Agri Tips
Here’s A Biopesticide That’s Both A Fertilizer And Pesticide; Something You Can Make!
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How would you like to make your own pesticide that is at the same time a fertilizer? You can do that simply by adding fermented garlic and hot pepper to the bio-organic liquid fertilizer developed by Dr. Ronaldo Sumaoang, a microbiologist who is an expert in the fermentation technology having […]
Why You Should Eat IPB VAR 6 White Corn, For Good Health
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There are very good reasons why more Filipinos should eat white corn, especiallyIPB Var6, an open-pollinated corn (which is being promoted by the experts of the Institute of Plant Breeding at Los Baños like Dr. Artemio M. Salazar. IPB VAR 6 is a white flint corn, one of those they call […]
Watering Your Veggies The Intravenous Way
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AT the Ramgo R&D Farm in Brgy. Antipolo, Bongabon, Nueva Ecija, we saw this curious way of watering two small plots of vegetables. It could be a ready conversation piece if you adopt it in your own home garden. We coined this term “watering your veggies the intravenous way.” That’s […]
How Come The Vegetables At The PSG Garden Were So Lush?
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Yes, how come those mustard, kangkong and pechay were so lush at the PSG Garden that we have featured earlier in this blog? They were harvested on Feb. 6 exactly one month after the seedlings were transplanted with Pres. Duterte as special guest but they were already harvestable on Feb. […]
MARKETING STRATEGY: It Could Give Him A Big Amount In One Swing
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We remember a loyal follower of our articles from Bukidnon. When we met him a few years back, he was not selling his sheep because he wanted to increase his population to about 200 head and then sell the whole flock in one swing. How? He has targeted owners of […]
FARMING MISTAKES: They Can Be Costly
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In farming it is very easy to commit mistakes. Neophytes, especially, can commit very costly mistakes. Just like a friend of ours from Laguna. One time he was excited telling us that he planted a lot of Red Lady papaya. He said an acquaintance of his offered to sell him […]
JEFF LIM: Goat And Sheep Farmer, A Brief Update
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You Don’t Have To Borrow From The Bank
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One time at the recent Agri-Kapihan, a lady retiree asked how she could borrow from the Land Bank. She said she has been quite successful in growing vegetables in containers in her hometown in Bicol. She has put into practice some of the practical ideas she had learned from attending […]
PECHAY: It Could Be Loaded With Insecticide More Than The Maximum Residue Limit
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There are times when insecticide residues exceed the Maximum Residue Limits (MRL) in pechay available in the market. This was reported by Dr.Susan May F. Calumpang and Dr. Gil Magsino of the Crop Protection Cluster of the College of Agriculture at UP Los Baños. In their experiments, they tested the […]
How To Be More Competitive In The Asean Market
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The Philippines is way behind in a number of ways compared to other member countries of ASEAN when it comes to agriculture. The facts and figures that tell us why were presented by Dr. William Dar during a roundtable discussion on the future of Philippine agriculture beyond six years.The event […]
