Agriculture Business Week

Almost 2,000 farmers from to municipalities covering 29 barangays of Palawan recently gathered in Brgy. Inagawan, Puerto Princesa for the first Palawan-wide farmers’ field day and forum.

Inagawan is one of the sites of the Location-Specific Technology Development (LSTD) program in Palawan. The program, which aims for farmers to develop farming technologies that are best suited to their specific farming conditions, is PhilRice’s support to the national Rice Self-Sufficiency Plan.

The field day included a field tour, viewing of exhibits, ceremonial turnover of rice hull carbonizer and drumseeder, and farmers’ forum. Moreover, it featured farm demonstrations showing the modified dapog technology, use of drumseeder, biomass recycling, Palayamanan® system, nutrient management through the leaf color chart and minus-one element technique, rice seed production technique, carbonized rice hull, and the flatbed dryer.

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Posted on July 4th, 2010 under Farming, Rice. Tags: Palawan, Palayamanan, PalayCheck, PhilRice, Rice. Comments: None

Is your farm not earning much? Try adapting the Palayamanan, a diversified forming system that the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) promotes for increased farm income and much savings on food!

Many farmers have successfully adapted it and more and more farmers are getting into it such as the Icamina couple of San Roque in Malinao, Aklan.

Couple Elwenn and Molina Icamina used to produce only rice from their one-hectare farm in which they had harvested 80 cavans. Now, having learned diversified fanning in the Palayamanan farmers’ field school that was conducted by PhilRice and the local government of Aklan in 2006, they harvest less rice but they earn much more because they have started producing other cash crops.

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Posted on July 24th, 2009 under Farming. Tags: Farming, Palayamanan, PhilRice. Comments: None

INNOVATE WITH PALAYAMANAN
The case of Aniceto “Sitong” Barrido of Barotac Nuevo, Iloilo is different from Butsoy, Nits, and Nanay Lydia. He is a progressive farmer who strives to search for new technology that would further increase his income.”

Sitong, 62, was a mechanical engineer at the Iloilo Dock and Engineering Company and Negros Navigation before he went to full-time farming in 1995. He started with 4 hectares (has) of irrigated rice. After five years, he is already cultivating 16 has, of which 6 has were his own. He planted the recommended varieties used by other farmers and harvested 4,230 to 4700 kg/ha.

He went through a season-long training on integrated pest. management, which the DA and the Municipal Agriculture Office conducted on Saturdays. His training enabled him to get higher yield and more income because his production cost was greatly reduced due to minimum use of insecticides and herbicides, and reduced seeding rate.

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Posted on May 11th, 2009 under Farming. Tags: Farmer, Iloilo, Palayamanan. Comments: None

Farmers may differ in religion and in some aspects of their culture, but when it comes to adoption of new farm technologies and information, they definitely enjoy similar benefits.

Take the case of Rodolfo D. de Gracia who is a Christian, Datu Blah M. Diocolano, the couple Ricky and Noria Simpal, and Maudti All who are Muslims in the new province of Shariff Kabunsuan. They are beneficiaries of a Philippine Rice Research Institute-Japan International Cooperation Agency (PhilRiceJICA) project in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), which promotes the Palayamanan farming concept through the technical cooperation project (TCP) 4. They claim that they are getting more farm income through the Palayamanan.

The Palayamanan concept revolves around the diversified and integrated farming systems that farmers have been practicing in rainfed rice farms in the Ilocos region, according to Dr. Madonna C, Casimero, PhilRice deputy executive director for research and development who developed the concept. With rice as a base crop, modern technologies and high-value commercial crops such as fish, poultry, livestock and fruit trees are integrated to increase productivity, profitability and sustainability.

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Posted on February 4th, 2009 under Farming, Rice. Tags: Farmers, Palayamanan, PhilRice, Shariff Kabunsan. Comments: None

Want to earn more cash and send your children to school? Then venture into Palayamanan or integrated farming like what a group of farmers in Pangasinan does.

They are headed by 38-year-old Patricio Castillo who tends a 3-hectare (ha) Palayamanan farm in San Joaquin, Balungao, Pangasinan. Through his earnings from integrated farming, he is able to provide well for his family and send his children to school.

This is what Dr. Madonna Casimero, PhilRice deputy executive director for research and development, hopes for other farmers. Because if they will engage in integrated farming like Castillo and his group, they will learn new-farm technologies, earn more, and develop fraternity among fellow farmers.
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Posted on January 14th, 2009 under Farming, Rice. Tags: Farming, Palayamanan, Rice. Comments: None

Palayamanan, a diversified farming system developed by PhilRice, is indeed a very practical way to farm. And more and more farmers benefit from it, especially nowadays when the cost of living is too high.

Among them is 62-year-old Quirico Ilisam of Dingle, Iloilo. He owns a 1.4-hectare farm, and for 35 years he used to harvest just around 110 cavans(cav) per cropping. He finally adopted Palayamanan in November 2007. He allotted 1 ha to rice and the remailing to vegetables such as tomato, eggplant, squash, string beans, sponge gourd, okra, alugbati, gabi and sweet and hot pepper.

“Unlike rice that takes [about[ four months to get an income, some vegetables can be sold after just a month,” Quirico said.
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Posted on January 4th, 2009 under Farming, Rice. Tags: Farmer, Palayamanan, PhilRice, Rice. Comments: None

He’s an undergraduate and he doesn’t have a land, but he earns well.

It’s because Benigno Endonela maximizes his farm resources well by practicing integrated farming or Palayamanan in the one-hectare farm that he rents in Barangay Ariman, Gubat, Sorsogon.

Like his father who rented and cultivated the same farm for 38 years, Benigno also believes that there’s money in farming. So when he succeeded the tenancy of the farm in 2003, he never had second thoughts on following his father’s footsteps.
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Posted on December 23rd, 2008 under Farming. Tags: Farmer, Palayamanan. Comments: 3