agriculture business : crops, aquaculture, livestock, poultry, entrepreneurs, and agrithing…
Learn the right way of making your own chicken nuggets, without the transfat.
A chicken nugget is either whole or composed from a paste of finely minced chicken and purposefully added chicken skin, which is then coated in batter or breadcrumbs before being cooked. Fast-food restaurants typically deep-fry their nuggets in oil. Oven-baking is the usual method of preparation at home.
In these days of soaring food prices around the world, a smart crop that provides food and fodder, grows in dry, salty or soggy conditions, tolerates heat, provides steady income for poor farmers, and can be used to produce ethanol. Sweet sorghum, a plant that grows to a height of 12 feet and looks like corn without the ears, has all these qualities.
While other coffee shops charge over a hundred pesos for a cup of specialty coffee, Bote Central Inc. offers a better, if not more affordable, alternative.
Acclaimed director Rob Reiner’s Movie “The Bucket List”, shown last month, tells a story between two old men who found unusual bond and joy in the time of old-age sickness. Morgan Freeman, freckle-faced and well-mannered, played an auto mechanic who, in his own universe, is a Jeopardy champion; while Jack Nicholson played the prickly billionaire owner of the hospital forced to share the twin-bedroom.
How the correct application of natural feed supplement can help promote stress resistance in aquaculture.
Stress is a major problem in intensive fish production systems, leading to growth reduction and increased susceptibility to infectious diseases. The goal of a successful aquaculture enterprise is to avoid a disease outbreak and significant economic losses. Although preventive measures through good management practices are still most effective. The correct application of natural feed supplement can help to promote stress resistance.
Ms. Soledad Agbayani talks about how multitasking in various agricultural vocations paid off more than she actually expected, and smilingly shares how her story of success “came from tears and sweat.”
Often sharing candid remarks and jests, Ms. Soledad Agbayani imparted to us how her success came from intense work-and not only did it pay off, as she has been contributing feats to various agricultural sectors and organizations. With newer markets to be targeted, altogether with emerging technologies and methods, Ms. Agbayani makes certain that she keeps up with the pace, like introducing her own pangasius business in Console Farm Inc., her proprietary company. Simultaneously, she is working for agricultural organizations and helping the sector boost its production; in March 2000 for instance, she and Ms. Gozon pioneered the exportation of mangoes in Korea by setting up export protocols with the Department of Agriculture and Bureau of Plant Industry.
The recently concluded 21st National Rice R&D has revealed new strategies to combat poverty and malnutrition, the overarching problems of the Philippines.
The Social Weather Stations December 2007 report noted that there were close to three million Filipinos who suffered from involuntary hunger (no food to eat) during the survey period. Moreover, the Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI) cited that 3.9 million Filipino children below five years were under weight in 2005.
The current rice shortage seems to be of national magnitude, but solutions can be found by breaking down the problem into manageable parts…
In the news lately is the long queue of people buying NFA rice-taking more than an hour of waiting for a buyer to buy three kilos of low-priced-rice. The long lines are reminiscent of years of the past, when a similar situation came to fore.
The increase of the price of rice (and other food commodities) in the world market- over 1oo% over three years- is a nightmare for rice importing countries like us and Indonesia and Bangladesh where the food cost is about 8o% of income earned by their poorest Constituents.
They’re called intelligent estimates. But how does statistics really figure out in agriculture?
Hard facts? Cold statistics? Guesswork? Solid benchmarks? What do agencies like the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS) really deal with? And how does the man-on-top describe it? “Intelligent estimates”- that’s the term used by BAS Director Romeo Recide in the agency he has been at the helm of for the longest time.
When the province of Quezon is mentioned, what usually comes to mind? Coconut, plenty of coconuts, is one of them. Another is insurgency. Quezon is one province where the NPAs are very active. And if you are a well meaning politician, what can you do to stem the tide of insurgency?
Shooting the insurgents and killing them is not the solution, says Proceso J. Alcala. the congressman from the second district of the province. Alcala is a civil engineer who has been in the construction business before entering politics. When he was campaigning for his first term in Congress, he tried to analyze what could be done to prevent the people from turning insurgents.
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has issued Executive Order 710 mandating the nationwide adoption of a corn-based production program.
Simply called Farmer-Scientists Training Program (FSTP), it is an agricultural Research, Development and Extension (RDE) strategy involving primarily the changing of or improving knowledge, skills, and attitudes of farmers engaged in crop production such as corn, rice, vegetables, and animals in a corn-based production system to adopt scientific methods of farming.
