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But hey, one doesn’t have to spend much for yogurt. With basic kitchen equipment, thick wad of newspaper, and unflavored yogurt, one can easily make it at home. Here’s how.
MATERIALS:
You will need fresh milk (if you own a dairy cow) or instant powdered whole milk, and unflavored yogurt. This will serve as a yogurt starter, and its shelf life should be six months from the time of purchase.
This is the vegetable gardening project in elementary and high schools in the second district of Quezon and Lucena City initiated by Congressman Proceso J. Alcala in cooperation with the Department of Education. The project is dubbed “Procesong Gulay Para sa Masaganang Buhay.”
Under the program, the latest varieties of high-value vegetables are grown in the school grounds using environment- and health-friendly, organic and natural farming practices. The program components include capability building which provides seminars on natural farming, including a handbook guide. The program also provides vegetable seeds, and other initial inputs in first cropping. The produce of the first crop will also be bought at prevailing prices so that the proceeds could be used to finance the succeeding croppings.
It was developed by the Eastern Visayas Integrated Agricultural Research Center (EVIARC) to boost the country’s jackfruit industry, and was already registered at the Bureau of Plant IndustryNational Seed Industry Council (BPINSIC).
The demand for the planting materials of this variety is increasing, and to cope with it, EVIARC has trained government agricultural technicians and private gardeners in jackfruit propagation, and has established scion groves in Provincial Technical Institutes of Agriculture (PTIA) Provincial Research and Extension Centers (PRECs) to produce more planting materials.
One man’s garbage is another man’s treasure. But, for PhilBIO, a young and dynamic firm dedicated to the advancement of biogas energy as a key solution to energy and environmental problems, garbage can turn into a city’s treasure. With its technical knowledge in the microbiological treatment of food waste, it utilizes bacteria to lessen the cost of running factories, farms, homes, and cars. How can this happen?
PhilBIO, which is also a member of the Asia Biogas Corporation, the largest biogas service company in Southeast Asia, creates biogas energy to generate electricity for farms in the Philippines because biogas-fed distribution generation reduces our reliance on grid-fed electricity, and strengthens the commercial and environmental performance of farms.
Presently, PhilBIO is developing technologies that can recover methane from sewage sludge and food waste to reduce environmental damage-including carbon emissions-caused by the improper treatment of garbage leach ate and sewage sludge.
They said the Philippines has more than three million hectares of drylands cultivated by about five million households, most of whom are very poor especially those in Northern Luzon, Central Visayas, and Southern Mindanao. Recurrent droughts and environmental degradation due to climate change aggravate the suffering of these poor communities.
In 2007 alone, the entire Ilocos region experienced extreme drought causing serious damage to corn and rice crops in La Union, Ilocos Sur and Pangasinan. There was practically no rain in the whole region from June to August.
It is said that planting during off season is like committing suicide. For any crop or corn for that matter, not following the regular planting calendar spells a variety of should-be problems. The list includes insect pests, drought, diseases, and rodents. On top of these, drying and storage are potential problems that can be brought about by rains and poor weather. Palay and corn need thorough drying and if one does not have drying equipment, significant losses from poor grain quality can be incurred.
On the other hand, many corn farmers in Luzon and Mindanao find off-season cropping more of an opportunity. Prices of grains during the off season are normally higher than the rest of the year since harvest does not synchronize with the majority of standing crops. Some say they do not want their farms idle so they plant another crop just before the regular rice season (in Central Luzon) and earn additional income. Yield may be lower in some instances but most of the time, the grain price in the off-season can compensate for the reduced output. But getting additional cash from a two-cropping-a-year farm venture is what attracts them the most.
The use of acidifiers or acidulants in feed or milk replacer for piglets is vital to achieve a correct digestion of feed. In you animals, production of hydrochloric acid(HCI) but the stomach is insufficient and the enzymatic system is not well developed. Thus, digestion, primarily of proteins, is not completely done. As a consequence, non-digested feed passes into the intestine, acting as an energy source for disease-producing microorganisms. In these cases, acidulant provides the much needed help.
ADVANTAGES OF USING ACIDULANT IN THE DIET
At the feed level, acidulant has the following advantages:
1. Improves feed digestibility
2. Increase palatability and feed intake
3. Decreases feed pH (a measure of the acidity or alkalinity opigsf a solution or substance)
4. Maintains its organoleptic qualities
5. Acts as feed preservative, preventing the growth of pathogens
The municipal government thought of farming as a sustainable livelihood for the beneficiaries of the Gawad Kalinga (GK) housing project in Barotac Viejo because most of their children are malnourished and the GK village is far from the town center, hence, it would be difficult and impractical for them to buy food and work there every day. Besides, many of the beneficiaries, who all came from Barangay San Geronimo, are farmers.
However, the soil in the village is infertile because the land was a sugarcane farm before the municipal government bought it for the housing project.
Starting in 2008, Dynamutilin, the original tiamulin hydrogen fumarate antibiotic will be know as Denegard worldwide. Denagard as a brand has been used in many countries including the United States. In the Philippines and the whole of Asia, however, tiamulin has always been known as Dynamutilin until now. Despite the change in the brand name, Denagard still “contains the priceless ingredient.”
E.R Squibb and Sons Animal Health Division, which was integrated with Novartis Animal Health several years ago, published the story of the “priceless ingredient.” It is an old story but its lesson remains very relevant to the business of marketing and using veterinary drug products today.
In the City of Baghdad lived Hakeem the Wise One and many people went to him for counsel which he gave freely to all, asking nothing in return.
Througout most of the developing countries, inadequate access to reasonable credit is most rural areas remains a major hurdle to the fulfillment of basic human aspirations. Complex application procedures and lack of connections and collateral are insurmountable impediments. Ironically, money-lending, especially to the poor, makes many fortunes and scarce resources are immobilized for consumption rather than invested in development.
In most parts of Asia, usury rates are deplorable. In Bangladesh, for instance, villagers routinely pay 120 percent annual interest on loans used for investment and consumption purposes. In the Philippines, Metro Manila market vendors commonly operate on a “five-six system,” paying 20 percent interest per week on their borrowed capital. Especially in agriculture, such exorbitant rates cripple investment. Access to credit at more reasonable rates often favors those who already hold wealth or exercise power, thus stifling more egalitarian participation in the economy.
One man who was very much aware of this problem was Dr. Muhammad Yunus. This Bangladeshi national was determined to find a way to free his country’s poor from the grip of usurious money-lenders. In the mid-70s, he was able to put into practice his philosophy of microcredit which he called Grameen - which means “rural bank.” The bank’s motto: “Take the bank to the people; not the people to the bank.”
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