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.

With the myriads of problems facing the mango industry that include pests and diseases, the changing climate pattern and others, it is only right to hold activities that will help increase the knowledge of mango farmers.

High-tech innovations in agriculture took center stage at the Crops Demonstration Day conducted by Syngenta last April 26 at the Convention and Exhibition Center in Singapore.

There is a new and better way of culturing oysters that is being espoused by the city agriculturist of Dagupan City.

One municipal head who is really serious in propagating organic farming in his own town is Mayor Leoncio “Jun” Evasco of Maribojoc, Bohol.

The ongoing trend is production of healthy foods, which means naturally-farmed food products that are not sprayed with chemical pesticides or meat products that are laced with antibiotics.

A cooperative leader in San Manuel, Tarlac, has harvested a record 16.2 tons of yellow corn per hectare. The feat was called y experts as the highest per hectare yield recorded in the country so far.

How did the idea of making sugar powder out of sweet sorghum juice? 

Alfredo Alog of Angadanan, Isabela has realized that there is more income from planting saba banana than any other crops he has planted. 

We just got an e-mail announcing the convening of the “First National Agritourism Research Conference in the Philippines” under the auspices of the Tourism Foundation Inc. and the Los Baños-based SEARCA or Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture. 

Not a few readers have been asking us how best they can start their own farm projects. 

Sweet sorghum was introduced in the Philippines several years back as a possible source of biofuel. 

This is the success story of the Mama Sita banana that has become a very promising commercial variety for farmers to grow. It is one of a number of products of a collaborative research effort between a private foundation (Mama Sita Foundation) and the 

Make sure to get a copy of the March 2012 issue of Agriculture Magazine published by the Manila Bulletin. It is now off the press and is available in bookstores and Bulletin outlets in various parts of the country. 

One of the interesting persons we met at the recent Philippine Food Exposition (Philfoodex) at the World Trade Center was a lady who specializes in making pickles out of locally available raw materials. 

When Edwin Jimenez, 61, of Mabilo, New Washington, Aklan, decided to stop using chemical pesticides, he did not only get higher yield and a premium price for his produce. 

Three processing plants in Aurora province are converting the coconut husk into important byproducts, thus maximizing the income of farmers from their trees. 

There are important coming events that you would like to know. Like the Philfoodex, for instance. 

There’s really money and job opportunity in those green coconut husks with shell usually thrown away by vendors of “buko” who are found in many places in Metro Manila.