Agribusiness meet at UP-Mindanao
Eggplant, bananas, sea cucumber, cacao, fruits, vegetables, organic farming, food safety, farm income, farm clustering, buyer preferences, market channels, cooperative management, underemployment, tourism and...
Fair trade policy on coco sugar boosts farmers’ income by 300%
by Lorie Ann A. Cascaro After a day’s work, P150 could very well be a welcome income for most coconut farmers and farm...
Pineapple: RP’s big dollar earner
by Jims Vincent Capuno Pineapple is one of the country’s major food exports, along with fresh banana and luscious mango. In fact, the...
Mindanao smallhold growers advocate for supply chain solutions
Food security experts looking for innovative ways to connect smallhold farmers to increasingly competitive and fast-moving modern markets turned for answers recently to a...
Mindanao veggie producers continue quest for markets
Consolidation and marketing opportunities in the domestic vegetable trade will be highlighted during the 7th Mindanao Vegetable Congress at the Almont Hotel and Inland...
Milk: Country’s top agri import
by Jims Vincent Capuno With more than 90 million Filipinos living in the Philippines today, each person gets only about three drops of...
Gov’t plans to reduce rice imports by 50%
The Department of Agriculture (DA) has announced over the weekend it plans to reduce by 50 percent the rice importations for next year. Agriculture...
Yes, there’s money in bonsai!
by Jims VIncent Capuno BELIEVE it or not, bonsai – which has always been conveniently attributed to the Japanese – is really Chinese...
2 Davao region food depots vying in nat’l barangay bagsakan search
Two barangay-based food depots (bagsakan) bested 58 other competitors in the regional level to qualify for the National Search for Model Barangay Bagsakan. The...
There’s money in growing carrots!
"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease,” Voltaire wrote a long, long time ago. Today, as someone...