Biotechnology: Possible solution to food crisis
“If the naysayers do manage to stop agricultural biotechnology, they might actually precipitate the famines and the crisis of global biodiversity they have been...
Biotechnology: Possible solution to food crisis
"Biotechnology represents one of the most exciting advances in the biological sciences in this century. It will become a driving economic force, helping to...
AGRI TRENDS: So, you want to grow banana?
“Banana is the most economically important fruit crop in the Philippines,” said the Laguna-based Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and...
Raising small ruminants for food and profit
Ruminants -- the world ruminant comes from the Latin “ruminare,” which means “to chew over again” -- are mammals that are able to acquire...
Yes, farming with trees is possible!
“To be poor and be without trees is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees...
AGRI TRENDS: Not just another kind of war
“There are about a dozen major environmental problems, all of them sufficiently serious that if we solved 11 of them and didn’t solve the...
AGRI TRENDS: Green super rice: Answer to looming food crisis?
After almost two decades of testing and implementation around the world, the “Green Super Rice” is starting to have a dramatic effect on crop...
Hope for the uplands
“At first, everything was just fine,” Manong Doming recalled. “We had enough and almost everything was affordable. We practice kaingin (slash-and-burn farming). Land was...
Yes, eggs do matter!
The low demand for eggs in the local market is very surprising in a country where balut, penoy, and kwek kwek is a street...
DA to host Christmas Night Fruit Market
Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol said on Monday the Department of Agriculture will host fruit farmers who would like to sell their products directly to...