Responding to the queries of farmers
EVERY cropping season, beginning and veteran rice farmers are always asking about seed quality and varietal information.
Aside from asking if what to plant, they...
Vulnerable ecosystems in Eastern Visayas
BIODIVERSITY is an important factor in improving our ecosystem because each species of plants or animals, no matter how small, all have an important...
Health-promoting properties of duhat and bignay
AT LEAST two projects which were implemented by the University of the Philippines Los Baños found that duhat (Syzygium cumini (L.) Skeels) and bignay...
Technological breakthroughs in agribusiness
ONCE AGAIN, Agrilink, known as the frontrunner of agricultural trade show in the country, opens on Thursday, Oct. 4, and will run until Oct....
Native chicken as a livelihood resource
FOLLOWING the first ZamPen Native Chicken FIESTA which was conducted by the Western Mindanao Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development Consortium (WESMAARRDEC)...
Celebrating the gains of citrus R&D
THE Farms and Industry Encounters through the Science and Technology Agenda (FIESTA) underscored the gains of the research and development efforts on citrus during...
Around the world, a child dies every five seconds
FROM the highest mortality countries, children are up to 60 times more likely to die in the first five years of life than those...
Seminar series on socio-economic researches
A SERIES of seminars on socio-economic researches in agriculture, aquatic, and natural resources were recently organized to provide a venue for the dissemination and...
Addressing the economic loss of goat farmers
PERHAPS the biggest cause of economic loss to the goat farmers in the country is the death of the kids before weaning.
Recent studies have...
A better alternative to conventional water pumps
IN MANY relocation sites across the country, most residents live with limited access to water.
While in some relocation areas, ground water is extracted through...