AVANT GARDENER Last week I published an article about Bernadeth Carandang from Medina, Magallanes, Cavite, a high school teacher and secretary of Magallanes-Samahang Magsasaka ng Kay-apas at Medina Agriculture Cooperative (Mag-Samakame). I chronicled her journey from a high school graduate...
By YVETTE TAN A multi-sectoral approach is important to ensure success in the agriculture industry. For the Magallanes-Samahang Magsasaka ng Kay-apas at Medina Agriculture Cooperative (Mag-Samakame) based in Magallanes, Cavite, this comes in the form of government support and partnerships...
AVANT GARDENER Last week, I and a few other press people were at the Bukidnon Integrated Coffee Center (BICC) in Malaybalay. The BICC, which is co-hosted by Nestlé Philippines, has been around since 2008 and is the center of the country’s Robusta program. Almost 90 percent of the country’s...
By YVETTE TAN Last week, I wrote about how I went on vacation to Taiwan fully intending to detach from work, but ended up appreciating their agriculture industry and mulling over ours anyway. Now I’d like to focus on the star of my trip: the roasted sweetpotato sold in convenience stores across...
AVANT GARDENER Earlier this month, I was once again invited by the non-government organization International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) to give a talk on how science and agriculture practitioners can prepare themselves for a media interview. I’ve...
By YVETTE TAN The fast pace at which technology develops means that many industries are keen on harnessing its potential. Agriculture is no different, as consolidators race to link farmers directly to consumers, bypassing the string of middlemen usually needed to get food from the field to the...
AVANT GARDENER Last week, I wrote about how I went on vacation to Taiwan fully intending to detach from work, but ended up appreciating their agriculture industry and mulling over ours anyway. Now I’d like to focus on the star of my trip: the roasted sweetpotato sold in convenience stores across...
By YVETTE TAN After a decade, the Philippines is once again exporting fresh mangoes to Australia. The initial shipment of 1,500 kilograms of Carabao mangoes left the Philippine Airlines (PAL) Cargo Terminal on September 6, 2023. After a decade, the Philippines is once again exporting...
AVANT GARDENER I just returned from a trip to Taiwan. This was supposed to be a vacation, so I vowed not to think of work during my stay. Of course, this was impossible as I, as a human being, needed to eat, and of course, what we eat is grown, caught, or foraged by farmers and fishers. ...
MUMshroom’s products, among them, mushroom chips, gourmet bottles in savory variants, chili garlic mushroom paste, pickled mushroom, fritters/ kropek. The Covid-19 pandemic was a traumatic global event, bringing the whole world to a halt as a virus threatened humanity. But despite the many...
AVANT GARDENER I visited Bukid Amara in Lucban, Quezon, a popular vegetable and flower farm among tourists and farmers. The 2.5-hectare farm is a sight to behold. The first thing that catches the eye is a field of different types of flowers that stretch out from the farm entrance toward a...
Petunias are beautiful flowers that are easy to care for. Diego Roxas, the current Spokesperson for the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI), spent the pandemic growing and selling petunias, and continues to do so on the side. READ: Putting passion into motion: How a young man’s childhood...
