Photo by Nandhu Kumar from Pexels. Agroforestry is a land management system wherein woody vegetation is grown alongside crops and livestock. Farmers design agroforest sites in a carefully planned spatial arrangement that takes into consideration the ecological interactions among different species....
Photo by Joanjo Puertos from Unsplash. The mass production of plastic in the 1930s has forever changed the world. The material was so convenient for businesses and consumers that it took generations before they realized its downside. But despite the global condemnation of plastic at present, it...
Senate President Vicente C. Sotto today (May 31) expressed hopes that President-elect Ferdinand ‘’Bongbong’’ R. Marcos Jr. is focused on the unabated multi-billion-peso smuggling activities in the country. In today’s Senate plenary session, Sotto said that he would file tomorrow a report...
Farming is not merely about growing food; it can also be a means of nurturing love and connections that transcend language, distance, and cultural differences. Mashistro Farms’ proprietors, Rida and Rosemarie Mahshi, came from two different countries and cultural backgrounds. Rida is a Lebanese...
Photo by Vadim Kaipov from Unplash. Some plants need more attention than others. If left uncared for for an extended period, certain plants may suffer and eventually perish. There will be instances when people will be out of their homes for days and weeks for vacation, so it is quite convenient...
Photo by Alejandro Barrón from Pexels. Balanced Fertilization Strategy (BFS) is a site-specific nutrient management (SNMM) technique that aims to improve the efficiency of fertilizers. In practice, BFS is the application of both organic and inorganic nutrients, as well as other farming strategies...
Globe, in partnership with the Department of Agriculture’s National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (DA-NFRDI) and Carmel-Haifa University Economic Corporation Ltd from the University of Haifa in Israel, recently held a webinar series that tackled the importance of incorporating...
Two years after the Covid-19 pandemic shut down human activity around the globe, the world can’t wait to get back to “normal.” And while we all know that there is no going back to the way the world was before the pandemic, many people seem determined to try, much to everyone’s detriment....
Dragon fruit production continues to expand across the Philippines, making it more challenging for agripreneurs to stay ahead of the competition. Despite that, Dragon Fruit Depot in Pulong Yantok, Bulacan, which has been growing the ‘superfruit’ for the past seven years, stays competitive by...
President-elect Bongbong Marcos has underscored the importance of the agriculture sector especially with the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic to the Philippines. President-elect Bongbong Marcos (BBM Media Office) "We should really learn our lessons from the pandemic. Huwag nating pababayaan yan...
Alyssum murale. Photo by Krzysztof Ziarnek from Wikimedia Commons. There exist on our planet certain plants that can, believe it or not, absorb metals from the earth. Researchers in northern Greece are studying how to take advantage of such plants by harvesting the metals from three shrubs which...
There is not much mainstream fanfare for passion fruits ( Passiflora edulis ) here in the Philippines. The yellow variety the country has is sour and there is not much to eat on the fruit except its seedy pulp. But once upon a time, a booming industry that centered on this fruit thrived in Taysan,...
