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By Henrylito D. Tacio The parents of Jethro P. Adang used to raise livestock, so it’s not surprising that he followed in their footsteps. “I grew up in a rural area and my parents were raising livestock in our backyard,” he recalled. So much so that when he returned to the Philippines after...

By Henrylito D. Tacio American Baptist minister and activist Martin Luther King, Jr. once said: “Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of...

By Henrylito D. Tacio Most Filipinos in the rural areas farm. Even in the cities, some entrepreneurs also grow crops under urban agriculture. Some of these farms have been turned into tourist areas that attract non-farmers, so much so that agri-tourism or farm tourism came into existence....

Cacao is a crop that has been included in the annals of Philippine history. The country was rediscovered by Ferdinand Magellan in 1521 but it wasn’t until in 1670 that the most sought-after cacao seeds were brought to Manila as a gift. Spanish mariner Pedro Bravo de Lagunas planted the seeds in...

By Henrylito D. Tacio Goats are considered the first hoofed animals ever tamed. In the Biblical town of Jericho, people kept domesticated goats as long as 6,000 to 7,000 years before Christ. The ancient Greeks and Romans paid great attention to the rearing of goats. Anyone at all familiar with...