The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has provided ready-to-apply Carrageenan Plant Growth Promoter (PGP) products worth more than P200,000 to farmers in Ilocos Norte to help them increase their harvests. (Photo from DOST-PNRI) DOST Secretary Fortunato “Boy” T. de la Peña said DOST-I...
Polluted air is not only detrimental to human health, but also to crop yield. A study in the United States found that the decrease in air pollution from 1999 to 2019 contributed to a 20 percent increase in corn and soybean harvests that cost about five billion dollars per year. Four air pollutants...
On July 29, Earth Overshoot Day, we have used up all ecological resources and services the planet can regenerate this year, three weeks earlier than in 2020, seven months earlier than in 1970. Happy New Year 2022? The year has come to a sudden end—at least resource wise. July 29, 2021 marks the...
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) and Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) have partnered for another project that seeks to protect Manila Bay's waters from further pollution. (From left to right) Pasay Rep. Antonio Calixto, Pasay Mayor Imelda Calixto-Rubiano,...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has been urged to spearhead the promotion of consumption of locally produced plant-based healthy food to help reduce greenhouse emissions and protect the environment, to strengthen the economy, and improve natural body defenses against...
Arugula, pak choi or Chinese white cabbage, greenspan lettuce, and romaine crops were among the green leafy vegetables harvested from the country’s first “smart farm”. (PIXABY) Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Secretary Fortunato “Boy” T. de la Peña said they got the “first...
The sudden spike in the demand for plants has resulted in the rising numbers of plant sellers in the country. Many growers have also started offering their plants. Unfortunately, this has also made the market susceptible to overpricing. Lito Dimaculangan, 58, a former OFW who has extensive...
Retirement may be a comforting idea, but on the other hand, this season can be filled with different emotional phases, including wanting to reestablish one’s old working routine. Lito Dimaculangan, 58, a native of Batangas, is familiar with this feeling. Dimaculangan, an accountant by...
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) will be part of the establishment of an “iron fortified" rice processing plant in Laoang, Northern Samar to address the high incidence of iron deficiency anemia (IDA) in the province. Elementary school children wearing face masks sit in a classroom...
Sustainable living goes beyond what we wear and what we use. Now, even how we consume food and what does inside our bodies need to be sustainable and conscious. Consumers are more mindful when it comes to food choices that affect not only our bodies but the whole world as well. This mindset has...
AVANT GARDENER Yvette Tan There’s a story about Nick Joaquin that’s been going around the creative writing circle for as long as I can remember. It’s said that during a writer’s workshop, the National Artist got so annoyed at a participant's work that he allegedly told the poor workshop...
For many Metro Manila residents born before 1985, there'll be stashed in their memory banks a sliver of recollection that nestled between Bel-Air/ Poblacion and the Pasig River, there used to stand a MERALCO power substation. This is the 15.5-hectare parcel of land that Rockwell Land started...
