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Archive for November 12th, 2008

Fil-Am Foods’ Farmers Edge Inaugurates New Feedmill with Senator Mar Roxas

In the bag of feed comes a handful of hope for Mindanao to rise to its full potential. Senator Mar Roxas, champion of real people’s real concern takes pride in bagging a hog feed during the inauguration of Pilmico Foods Corporation’s new feed mill facility at Kiwalan, Iligan City last September 4, 2008.

In his speech during the inauguration, he said, “There is hope in Mindanao”, words from a senator who envisions economic development in the south.

Also, in his brief TV interview he told ABS-CBN that what is, lacking in Mindanao is capital and investors to establish business in the area thereby creating more jobs, more income for the people, and if Mindanao is to have ecozone free port like what Subic and Clark have then this would be an added incentive to the investors to put up business.

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Posted on November 12th, 2008 under Livestock, Rice. Tags: , . Comments: None

The RO-RO Connection (Part 5)

Can the government’s roll-on/roll-off (RO-RO) transport system really answer the efficient movement of agricultural goods all over the Philippine islands?

The Philippine archipelago consists of more than 7,100 islands and islets. Endowed with beautiful sceneries and natural resources, the accessibility of the islands as well as mobility within the islands is the primary goal of infrastructure development.

Like the various pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that must be locked together, these islands need to be linked efficiently by a seamless transport infrastructure network - providing inter-modal land, air and sea transport systems that form an integrated national highway.

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Posted on November 12th, 2008 under Special Report. Tags: . Comments: None

Manual Charcoal Briquettor Boosts Income of Coconut Farmers

This modified manual briquetting machine has been creating ripples in Cavite.

The researchers of the Forestry Products Research and Development institute, based at UP Los Banos, Laguna, fabricated a modified manual briquetting machine using steel plates, angle bars and round bars. It was patterned after an existing manual briquetting machine weighing 55 kilograms (kg) and produces 12 kg of briquettes per hour. Each briquette measures 5.0 cm high and 2.5 cm in diameter.

The modified unit makes briquettes each measuring 3.8 cm high and 3.8 cm in diameter with 1.25 cm cavity diameter. It produces 15 kg of charcoal briquettes/hr. The unit weighs 75 kg, making it sturdier than the old unit.

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Posted on November 12th, 2008 under Other Crops. Tags: , . Comments: None

Yes To Market Niches

How to stand out among a sea of local products meaning to be recognized? Two words: niche marketing

Value-added agricultural products-from the simple pre-weighed and pre-priced vegetables and fruits like carrots, mandarin oranges, celery, beef, chicken or fish in sanitary trays; to the more process-intensive forms like premixed cut-up vegetables like chopsuey and pinakbet and ready-to-grill boneless bangus, fish fillets, de-boned and breaded chicken breasts-were last year’s highlight in Agrilink, the Philippines’ grandest and most influential trade fairs on agribusiness, food and aquaculture.

This addressed farmers and fisherfolk’s problems of extracting a bigger share of the prices paid for their farm produce at supermarkets and grocery stores.

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Posted on November 12th, 2008 under Livestock, Special Report. Tags: , . Comments: None

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