Agriculture Business Week

Women are enterprising and they also make good farmers. Just like two women from Brgy. Posnaan, Aguinaldo, Ifugao. who have been growing one of the latest corn hybrids called Healer 101.

They are Julie Tinong, 36, and Isabel Cauelan, 63. Julie has been taking charge of growing corn in their two hectare-farm. Since she got married in 1994, she has been planting corn and had experienced growing the old varieties. Two years ago, she was introduced to Healer 101 and swears, this is the best variety she has tried so far.

In her latest dry season crop, she got an average of 120 cavans (56 kg per cavan) per hectare which she sold at P12.90 to P13 per kilo. She got a very good profit because she only spent P20,000 cash per hectare. She attributes the low cash expense to the fact that her four children helped her in land preparation, planting and other farm chores.

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Posted on June 15th, 2012 under Uncategorized. Tags: Bioseed, Ifugao, Isabel Cauelan, Julie Tinong. Comments: 1

HIGHER YIELD
It is the higher yield of Bioseed 9909 that attracts farmers to plant it. For instance, from the same one-fourth hectare that Eddie Castilliero planted to Bioseed 9909 this year, he got only 26 cavans from another hybrid variety last year. He sold his harvest for only P14,000.

The variety that he had been planting for the last three years was easily affected by drought. “If it was not irrigated in 15 days, the plants already started to wilt. On the other hand, Bioseed 9909 is resistant to drought,” he said.

With Bioseed 9909, he got 2,287.5 kilograms of newly shelled grains, which he sold at P8 a kilo. Even with this low price, lie still obtained a net income of no less than P10,000 from one-fourth hectare. This means that his income was equivalent to P40,000 per hectare.

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Posted on July 5th, 2009 under Corn/Maize. Tags: Bioseed, Corn, Farmer, Maize. Comments: 1

In our recent tour in Sultan Kudarat and war-torn Maguindanao, we met an extension worker-farmer and two farmer-financiers who insist that nothing, is better for them now than the Bioseed corn varieties they are planting.

All of them – Nerio Gerodias of Talisawa, Datu Abdullah Sangki, Maguindanao, Jessie Caldito of Camasi, Ampatuan, Maguindanao, and Yolanda Sales of Osmena, Bagumbayan, Sultan Kudarat – had been planting other hybrid varieties. But they will not plant those varieties again as they are now greatly satisfied with Bioseed varieties.

FINDING TIME FOR FARMING
Nerio, 53, is an agricultural extension worker of the Municipal Agriculture Office of Datu Abdullah Sangki yet he finds enough time for farming. He spends his free time in his farm, and extends farm technologies to owners of neighboring farms and other farmers from other barangays.

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Posted on April 14th, 2009 under Corn/Maize. Tags: Bioseed, Corn, Hybrid. Comments: None

Farmers in South Cotabato have a new apple of the eye and it is the new corn variety called Bioseed 9909, which has a potential yield of 11 tons per hectare (t/ha).

The variety, which Bioseed Research Philippines, Inc., bred has earned praises from the farmers who have tried it. In fact, corn farmers from as far as Libungan, North Cotabato attended a harvest festival in Brgy. 5, Banga, South Cotabato just to see the good yield of Bioseed 9909.

The harvest festival was held in the farm of Justo Damasco, 60, a migrant from Mabini, Pangasinan. He utilized 36 ha for Bioseed 9909 crop production of which 14 ha are in Brgy 5. At the time of the festival, 9 ha were ready for harvest.

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Posted on February 17th, 2009 under Corn/Maize. Tags: Bioseed, Bioseed 9909, Corn/Maize, Farmers, South Cotabato. Comments: 12

The new corn hybrid Bioseed 9909 is reaping praises from many farrners in Mindanao that is why it is now being planted in many; and two farmer leaders in North Cotabato and Shariff Kabunsuan could attest this.

Cesario Doyola, 53, of Upi, Shariff Kabunsuan (formerly a part of Maguindanao province), allotted his 5-hectare corn farm this season for Bioseed 9909 after meting out 1.1 hectares for this variety last season.

He planted 37 kilograms (kg) of seeds last season and harvested a total of 232 bags of corn ears. He said that he got 57 bags of corn kernels with each bag weighing 83 to 85 kg, from the first 115 bags of corn ears. After that he stopped counting since he was already convinced that the new variety has a high yield potential.

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Posted on January 21st, 2009 under Corn/Maize. Tags: Bioseed, Corn. Comments: 7

In Alamada Valley, North Cotabato, two corn farmer financiers also claim that the performance munce of the hybrid Bioseed 9909 is a lot better than other varieties they have used and, hence, they are pushing its use among farmers whom they are financing.

They are Bernadette “Badette” Ayco, a widow in Brgy. Bao, and Eduardo “Eddie” Octaviano in Brgy. Camansi. Badette started using Bioseed corn seeds in 2004, while Eddie is only in his third crop of Bioseed 9909.

Badette and her late husband started to plant corn in 2 hectares (ha) in 1985. With a capital of P10,000, they were planting seeds of another hybrid seed producer which yielded an average of 120 bags of ears in cobs.. From their harvest they got 40-45 bags of dry shelled corn weighing 95-97 kilograms (kg) each.

From 1985 to 1990, they were bringing their corn grains to traders in Midsayap using hired cargo trucks. The trucking cost then was only P0.20 a kilo, while the price of corn was only P4 plus per kilo. Today, trucking cost has increased tremendously to P0.60 a kilo.

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Posted on November 27th, 2008 under Corn/Maize. Tags: Bioseed, Corn/Maize. Comments: None