AGRITRENDS: RAISING GOATS CAN BOOST LAGGING DAIRY INDUSTRY (Last of Three Parts)
Geographically, the Philippines is an upland country
because 60% of its 30 million hectares are classified as such. The uplands are
rolling to steep areas where both agriculture and forestry are...
AGRITRENDS: RAISING GOATS CAN BOOST LAGGING DAIRY INDUSTRY (Second of Three Parts)
Farming has been a long-standing primary livelihood of most Filipinos. If they want to earn extra income from their farms, they should raise goats. With an...
AGRITRENDS: RAISING GOATS CAN BOOST LAGGING DAIRY INDUSTRY (First of Three Parts)
Mariecar B. Jara, a Filipina journalist who now works for The Gulf Today in Dubai, United Arab of Emirates, and her siblings grew up drinking milk...
ENVIRONMENT: SAVING ECOLOGICALLY-FRAGILE CORAL REEFS (First of Three Parts)
Archipelago, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, is “a sea or stretch of water having many islands.” The word could have been invented...
AGRITRENDS: MEAT PROCESSING INDUSTRY IS GROWING
Early this year, the Philippine Association of Meat Processors, Inc. (PAMPI) pointed out that meat processing industry in the Philippines “continues to grow.” This...
AGRITRENDS: BUY LOCALLY, PROTECT HOG INDUSTRY
In
a recent news briefing in Quezon City, Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel F. Piñol
urged traders not to import pork products from so-called “high risk” countries
hit by...
AGRITRENDS: New kid on the choco block
by
Noel T. Provido
In a country where the average age of farming is 57 years old, it is a breath of fresh air to discover...
AGRITRENDS: Waging war against quiet crisis (Last of Three Parts)
"FOR the wages of sin,” says the Holy Bible, “is death” (Romans 6:23).
“When man sins against the earth, the wage of that sin
is death or destruction. This...
AGRITRENDS: Waging war against quiet crisis (Second of Three Parts)
Poorest of the poor.” “Marginalized.” “Illiterate.” These are some of the terms used to describe the upland farmers in the Philippines. But the Mindanao...
AGRITRENDS : Waging war against quiet crisis (First of Three Parts)
“Three out of four farmers in developing
countries farm in the hills,” said Harold R. Watson, an American agricultural
missionary. “When they hold a fistful of exhausted...