Agriculture Business Week

“Malunggay” in the Philippines, “Sajina” in the Indian Subcontinent, and “Moringa” in English, it is a popular tree. Many Asians use the leaves of Malunggay (Sajina) like spinach and also the fruit it produces as a vegetable, like asparagus. It only used to be known as a vegetable for lactating mothers. But new scientific studies say that malunggay’s medicinal and market possibilities.

Touted by scientists as a “miracle vegetable,” malunggay has been promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO) for the past 20 years as a low-cost health enhancer in poor countries around the globe.

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Posted on August 1st, 2008 under Vegetables. Tags: Malunggay, Moringa, Veggies. Comments: None

Our favorite tree answers back to vehicle owners who cry out for cleaner environment and economic development.

The coconut is called ‘The Tree of Life’ because of the wide and ostentatious variety of products, not only with what its fruit, but even what its roots and bark, can furnish. Even the leaves play significant role to this moniker; not to mention components like carbohydrates, protein, calcium, phosphorous, icon, sodium, potassium, magnesium, copper, sulfur and chlorine that drinking the fresh coconut water entails. The tree provides food, shelter and fuel, making it one of the country’s contributory dynamics to its economic growth.

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Posted on August 1st, 2008 under Other Crops. Tags: Biofuel, Coconut. Comments: 1

Over the last few years, change had occurred in the ways things are done in the farms and other agricultural ventures that now calls for new policy intervention from government.

Borne of necessity, farming activities, specially in rice, are “outsourced” and are no longer being physically done by t8e farmer. Whereas before, the farmer would personally plow the fields, he now avails of the services of a hand tractor operator. Seeds and/or seedlings are procured from a seed producer. Labor to plant the rice seedlings is contracted so that planting can be done in a short period of time. This also includes other farm activities such as harvesting, threshing, warehousing and the like.

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Posted on August 1st, 2008 under Special Report. Comments: None

It takes only a thousand pesos to start this enterprise.

Healthy burgers now are preferred for business by replacing backfat with ground mushrooms to make the hamburger juicy and higher in yield.

Beef, pork and chicken are in the amount of 70% or 700 grams per kilo and 30% (30 grams) to replace the backfat.

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Posted on August 1st, 2008 under Income Booster. Tags: Burger, Mushroom, Recipes. Comments: None

Cagayan De Oro City. The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources is eyeing at least a 25 percent increase in bangus(milkfish) production in Region 10 beginning next year following the recent opening of the first government operated milkfish hatchery in Sagay, Camiguin.

In his report to Agriculture Secretary Yap, BFAR national director Malcolm I. Sarmiento, Jr. said that the hatchery is the third of four interlinked facilities programmed to be established in this region that would ensure the holistic development of the bangus industry of Northern Mindanao.

“Next year, we expect to start the groundwork for the construction of a P10M fish processing plant as negotiations are already underway for the acquisition of the lot”, Sarmiento added.

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Posted on August 1st, 2008 under Aquaculture. Tags: Bangus, Milkfish, Mindanao. Comments: None