The Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST-PCAARRD) has released the first edition of "The Philippines Recommends (PR) for Mangrove Crab” which aims to walk public, entrepreneurs, farmers and...
Domestic car production staged a dramatic 88.4 percent turnaround in March this year, the first time since the pandemic, with local manufacturers ramping up factory output. Data from the ASEAN Automotive Federation (AAF) showed that Philippines car assemblers produced a total of 8,298 units in...
Esteemed film director Erik Matti took to social media recently to rant about mounting production costs amid the ongoing pandemic. He made sure people got the point, too, posting a screenshot of a computer screen, showing actual figures. He said, “Most people think the difficulty of producing...
Avant Gardener Yvette Natalie Tan Many people think that farming is just planting seeds and harvesting crops. They don’t understand that like any business, it entails a whole production process, and that money may need to be spent in different areas along the way. Raf Dioniso of Make a Difference...
AVANT GARDENER Yvette Natalie Tan Just what exactly is needed to produce a grain of rice? Quite a lot of labor and capital. Despite rice being a staple of the Pinoy dining table, not many Filipinos understand how the country’s favorite grain goes from binhi (seed) to bigas (milled rice). When...
Previously unknown species of microbes have been discovered in various areas on the International Space Station (ISS) through advanced genetic testing. Three out of the four species are novel microbes that have never been found before. Since the newly-discovered bacteria can exist in...
The country’s metallic mineral production slightly increased by value last year as prices remained higher than their pre-coronavirus pandemic levels, data from the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) showed. The total metallic mineral output in January to December last year rose by 1.13...
Many forests have been converted to agricultural lands to meet the growing demand for food caused by the escalating human population. The unsustainable use of natural resources in agriculture has been a major contributor to biodiversity loss that threatens not only human lives, but also the...
According to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), about 4,958 metric tons, or nearly 5 million kilograms of meat was produced in 2016, with pork in the lead. This translates as to how much pork Filipinos consume, almost on the daily, and how high the demand is for the commodity. ...
Most Filipino dishes such as adobo, sinigang, and menudo have pork as a key ingredient in them. This shows how Filipinos love consuming the protein and gives aspiring pig raisers a glimpse of how large the demand is for the meat. A webinar broadcasted by the Agricultural Training Institute in...
By Patricia Bianca S. Taculao Venturing into pig farming can be a profitable business due to the high demand of pork in the market. Yet it requires the right know-how along with the necessities in terms of housing, food, and such to make the operation work. In the previous article ,...
There are thousands of mushroom species worldwide, but not all of them are edible. “One indicator that mushrooms are poisonous is that it has white gills,” said Emma Tolentino, farmer, ATI learning site cooperator, and owner of Eco Natural Integrated Farm, during an AgriTalk webinar on mushroom...
