Figaro Innovation and Development Inc. (FIDI), a subsidiary of Figaro Coffee Group, is pleased to announce the signing of a mutual non-disclosure agreement, marking the beginning of a strategic partnership aimed at boosting local agricultural development and ensuring food security together with San...
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported a decrease in the country's total rice stock inventory for March, coinciding with the onset of the El Niño peak.The overall rice inventory declined by three percent to 1.37 million metric tons as of March 1, down from 1.41 million metric tons...
As rice variety studies are in continuous full-swing in the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), delegates from the rice breeding innovation assured that the drought-tolerant rice seeds would be able to improve yield, lessen the farmer’s operating expenses, and provide benefits to...
Our desire to have a healthy food source routed us to try farming. We are foodies, and at the same time, we also want to ensure that what we take in is safe and healthy. Being at home during the pandemic allowed us to explore how else we can have a sustainable life. With a limited space at home, we...
Ediscape is a farm development and agribusiness consultancy co-founded by Homer Deloso, the CEO and Chief Farming Officer, and his wife, Fraullyn. Together, they form the dynamic EDISCAPE Power Couple, sharing a vision to revolutionize the farming industry. With a strong passion for innovation and...
When I was still young, I saw my father and uncles raising broiler chickens, and they influenced my interest in fowl. When I was six years old, I was already taking care of my own bantam chicken. Since then, my passion for chickens has grown, and I decided to start my own chicken breeding business....
It was my parents, Jose Gaudencio “Denny Boy” Realiza and Ma. Erna Realiza, who influenced me in farming and taught me how to raise poultry, livestock, and rabbits, among other things. Before me and my siblings go to our newly opened rice fields in Labrador (Prinda), Polanco, Zamboanga del Norte...
Together with Vinnie Bañaria, we started small, with buying the seven chicks and growing them to become breeders, as well as the housing and feed expenses. At first, we had seven pieces of Italian Line Black Australorp chicks; we grew them, and after eight months, we produced our own chicks on the...
Crops develop at the regional technological demonstration field of the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Agrarian Reform (MAFAR) of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM-MAFAR). (Photo by Martin Sadongdong / MANILA BULLETIN)SULTAN KUDARAT, Maguindanao -- Filipino farmers...
By BENJAMIN SARONDOOn a one-hectare farm in Valencia, Negros Oriental, Joseph Ambos and Ardie Estrada, owners of CEVA Farm, raise different breeds of goats, such as native goats, upgraded goats, F-series goats, boer-anglo, full-blooded boers, and dappled goats.On a one-hectare farm in Valencia,...
By BENJAMIN SARONDOCesar Yuchongco, 69, owner of Isabel Game Farm, first became interested in chickens when he was a little kid. His family had a cockpit in Albay, Bicol, and he grew up watching the game and witnessed how the trainers prepared their roosters.Cesar Yuchongco is the owner of Isabel...
By BENJAMIN SARONDO“One of the misconceptions about dairy farming and dairy business is that it is always about carabaos and cows, and that is what people know. They are not familiar with goat milk, which, as they say, is the closest to mother’s milk when it comes to taste,” Julius Velasquez,...
