By Henrylito D. Tacio *“Mangroves are like the kindergarten, seagrasses are the secondary schools, and coral reefs are the high schools and colleges for fishes! And, once (the fishes) graduate from university, they return to kindergarten to spawn.” – Khun Psit, cofounder of Thailand’s Yad...
By Eleanore O. Hatta If there is one animal that is dreaded by both rural farmers and urban gardeners, it would be the ordinary yet potentially harmful rat. Why are rats given such a negative image? The most common reason is that rats eat crops from both farms and gardens. No, rats don’t eat...
From a city girl to a farm girl, that’s how 27-year-old Monica Salinas, or TikTok’s Northeast Farm Girl, happily found herself after years of living in the urban world. It all started in 2020, Salinas was asked a favor by MJ, her brother overseas, to trim the grapevines in their farm in Anao,...
By Henrylito D. Tacio Michael Bassey Johnson, the man behind *The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes*, has written something about mango, the Philippines’ fruit icon. “If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you’d be wasting your time while others are learning how to climb the tree.”...
By Oliver Samson While strong winds are bad for most crops, the pili tree is prompted to bear more fruits when shaken by strapping air currents, said Santos Borbe, Jr, a farmer from Polangui, Albay. Pili trees thrive in Bicol even without human intervention. They grow in the region despite the...
# Heading Paragraph [Hyperlink](https://www.agriculture.com.ph) Photo caption (Credit) More body A market vendor shows off the size of imported onions selling for ₱350 a kilo in Libertad Market. In a senate hearing, it was found out that three farmers from Bayambang, Nueva Ecija, committed...
