Agriculture Business Week

Finally, Asha peanut is now a commercial variety recommended for local planting following the recent approval from the National Seed Industry Council (NSIC) of the Bureau of Plant Industry. It is registered as NSIC 2009 Pn 15.

Rose Mary G. Aquino of the Cagayan Valley Integrated Agricultural Research Center (CVIARC) of the Department of Agriculture Region 2 based in San Felipe, Ilagan, Isabela and is also the project leader in the production of Asha peanut in the Philippines, said that Asha was approved after it passed a series of testing and careful evaluation required for its commercial release.

Results from the 17 national cooperative trials showed that Asha consistently ranked number one in terms of yield, surpassing the NSIC national check variety Pn 11 by 22% and 10% during wet and dry seasons, respectively. It produced the highest recorded yield of 3,991 kg per hectare which is double the yield of commercial peanut varieties in the country.

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Posted on May 2nd, 2010 under Other Crops. Tags: Asha, Peanut. Comments: 15

Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) or groundnut has been a popular crop in the Philippines. It is considered one of the major field legumes grown by farmers but its production has been low and erratic. Among the provinces in the Philippines, the top producers of peanut are Isabela, Pangasinan, La Union, Quirino, Cagayan, Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, Aurora, Albay and Iloilo. However, the Cagayan Valley region produced almost half of the country’s total peanut production.

In the Philippines, peanut can be grown throughout the year provided inputs, especially the water requirement are adequately available. In general, dry season crop (October-January) gives higher yields and beans of better quality than the rainy season crop.

Recommended Varieties

The recommended peanut varieties in the Philippines are as follows:

1. UPL Pn-2 – 104-111 days
2. UPL Pn-4 – 105-110 days
3. UPL Pn-6 – 105-110 days
4. UPL Pn-8 – 100-110 days
5. BPI Pn-2 – 97-101 days
6. UPL Pn-10 – 98-100 days
7. PSB Pn-2 – 101-103 days
8. PSB Pn-3 – 103-104 days
9. ICGV 8848 -120 days
10. ICGV 88392 -120 days
11. ICGV 88406 -120 days

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Posted on October 16th, 2009 under Technical Guide. Tags: Legumes, Peanut. Comments: 2

Peanut production in Cagayan Valley gets a boost as the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCARRD) recently approved the implementation of a peanut crop improvement and seed support system. The P8M-project will focus on Region 2 and will be led by the Department of Agriculture Regional Field Unit 2′s Cagayan Valley Integrated Agricultural Research Center (DA-CVIARC) in Ilagan, Isabela.

Historically, Region 2 was the country’s leading producer of raw peanuts, devoting around 20,000 hectares of the region’s land area to peanut production in the early to mid 1990s.

To increase peanut productivity, the new project intends to fast track the selection of better adapted varieties from on-station and on-farm yield trials and the development of improved package of production technologies.

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Posted on March 11th, 2009 under Other Crops. Tags: Peanut. Comments: 2

Unknown to many, agriculture is one of the industries that benefit, from nuclear-based technologies, among which are developed by the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (PNRI), a research and development agency of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST).

One of the recent technological advancements made by PNRI is crop improvement by inducing beneficial mutation through irradiation. In this study, PNRI used gamma radiation coupled with tissue culture and molecular techniques to develop new crop varieties with improved characteristics.

The crop varieties developed or improved belong to the following crop categories:

Rice. PNRI has identified in 2005 top four highest yielding rice mutant lines among 14 mutant selections evaluated. These are Azmil x Bengawan mutant, IR 8 x Denorado mutant, Denorado mutant 1, and Azucena mutant. Based on the yield trials conducted by PNRI in 2006, Azucena mutant had the highest yield at 4.75 tons per hectare (t/ha), followed by the control, PSB Re 18 at 4 t/ha. 1R 8 x Denorado mutant 1 placed third at 3.82 t/ha, followed by Denorado mutant at 3.57 t/ha. The lowest yield was Azmil x Bengawan mutant with 3.25 t/ha.

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Posted on February 10th, 2009 under Ornamental, Other Crops, Rice, Technology. Tags: Cashew, Irradiation, Mangosteen, Mungbean, Ornamentals, Peanut, Rice, Soybean. Comments: 1