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From Grass Lands to Productive Corn Lands

One thing that members of the Northern Iloilo Corn Producers Association, Inc. (NICPAI) are so proud of is the conversion of the once unproductive grass lands in Sara and nearby towns into productive corn lands. This is especially true in barangays Del Castillo, Tad; Latawan, Ardemil, Malapaya, and Muvco, the mountainous areas of Sara where only a few farmers were into corn farming before 1998.

According to Delson B. Sonza, an agriculture graduate of the Western Visayas State University who specialized in agribusiness and Iloilo’s official representative to the PhilMaize, the mountainous areas of Sara in the past were a great contrast to nearby lowlands where there are 10,000 hectares (ha) of rice and 6,000 ha of sugarcane. Some of the people in the mountainous areas were growing corn but their yields were awfully low as hybrid corn seeds were not available.
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Posted on August 14th, 2008 under Corn/Maize. Tags: . Comments: None

Corn Farmer Becomes Rich through Service Providing

In these days when production costs soar and credits are tight, creditors would rarely trust someone, especially a farmer with millions worth of credit without a collateral. But they do, and the lucky farmer is Carlos G. Guevarra of Barangay Anao, Mexico, Pampanga.

Feed millers, seed dealers, and farm supply dealers go to his doorstep and offer credits without him asking for these. All they want from him is his commitment of repayment, which he has never reneged for more than a decade of farming. For him, a man’s word is his honor, and he is true to his word.
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Novatech Agri-Food Industries to Receive Best Organic Fertilizer Manufacturer Award

It can not be denied that the high quality of a product speaks well of itself among its users and those who advocate high quality products for their risers. Such is the case of Durabloom, a bio-organic fertilizer manufactured by the Novatech Agri-Food Industries, which is owned and managed by Berlin trained industrial microbiologis Dr Ronaldo A. Sumaoang.

For the second time in a row, Novatech Agri-Food Industries will receive again the Best Bio-organic Fertilizer Manufacturer Award, according to a joint announcement of the National Council for Product and Service Quality, National Product Quality Excellence Awards, and Consumers Today Magazine. Novatech received the award for the first time in 2005, covering the period from 2004 to 2005. This year’s award covers the period from 2006 to 2007. What’s more, no other organic fertilizer manufacturer in the Philippines has received this award.
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Posted on August 14th, 2008 under Organic. Tags: , , . Comments: 1

DA Farmers’ Co-ops Program Production, Improve Marketing of Highland Vegetables

Productions of rice, fruits, and vegetables in the Philippines have been reportedly increasing for the past years and yet, there’s a, food crisis in the country today.

There are many reasons why there is. In the case of highland vegetables, shortage of supply temporarily happens when there is a typhoon and harvests are not delivered to the markets. On the other hand, preventing oversupply of vegetables is also a challenge. Farmers tend to produce the same vegetables and these results in a glut or periodic oversupply.

What should be done to ensure a steady supply of highland vegetables at affordable prices, prevent oversupply, and increase the profit of farmers is to come up with a production programming and an improved marketing system. And these are what the Department of Agriculture (DA), groups of highland vegetable farmers, and traders are doing right now.

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