Archive for August, 2009
Banana exports to US seen by next year
August 27th, 2009
BY NEIL JEROME C. MORALES – BusinessWorld Online
LOCAL BANANA producers will likely be able to export fresh bananas to the United States starting next year, an Agriculture official said yesterday.
“I am optimistic that the process in exporting [bananas] would be fast because the banana industry is organized,” Joel S. Rudinas, director of the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI), told reporters.
“Right now we are in the comment period [proposing procedures to the US Department of Agriculture, or USDA]…until maybe end of August or September,” he said, adding that the US banana market is worth over $100 million. Read the rest of this entry »
Braveheart Farms and Nursery
August 27th, 2009
Barangay Paco, Kidapawan City 9400
Email: braveheart_efp@yahoo.com
Breeder of outstanding meat and dairy goats made available for
Filipino goat breeders.
Boers: Young Bucks and Does with ABGA pedigree papers – P25,000
: Young Bucks and Does w/out
Pedigree papers – P20,000
Anglo Nubian:
: Young Bucks and Does with
ADGA papers – P25,000
Climate change affecting production — Farm chief
August 17th, 2009
DAVAO CITY — To the chief of the Agriculture department, climate change is not something the farm sector should be bracing for — because it has already been affecting production.
In a speech during the opening here earlier this week of the 2009 Mindanao Trade Expo, Agriculture Secretary Arthur C. Yap said climate change has particularly hit the sugar industry, whose production has been declining in the past two quarters, although rice farming has been rising.
He noted that the country is hit by an average of 26 typhoons each year, but because of changing climatic conditions, these have become stronger and more difficult to predict.
“So, even if you plant, when the typhoon comes, it’s [crops are] all destroyed,” Mr. Yap said. “Climate change is not something we are talking about anymore, climate change is something we are experiencing.”
Gov’t earmarks P3 billion for corn purchases
August 12th, 2009
BY NEIL JEROME C. MORALES, Reporter
THE NATIONAL Food Authority (NFA) has allocated more than P3 billion to buy corn from local farmers this year at a premium.
The state grain agency is targeting to procure 230,000 metric tons of yellow corn worth P2.8 billion and 65,000 MT of white corn worth P892 million until December this year, NFA Administrator Jessup P. Navarro said in a press release yesterday.
As of end-July, the agency had already bought 19,171 MT of yellow and white corn, Mr. Navarro said. Read the rest of this entry »
House ways and means committee OK’s incentives for organic farming, Philrice
August 12th, 2009
THE HOUSE of Representatives ways and means committee yesterday approved two bills that give tax incentives to organic farming and to the Philippine Rice Research Institute, or Philrice.
The still-unnumbered substitute bill, entitled the “Organic Agriculture Act of 2009,” principally authored by Nueva Ecija Rep. Joseph Gilbert F. Violago (2nd district), Leyte Rep. Erufrocino M. Codilla, Sr. (4th district), and Cagayan de Oro Rep. Rufus B. Rodriguez (2nd district), seeks to promote organic agriculture by giving incentives to farmers engaged in this type of farming. Read the rest of this entry »
New Biogas Generator Helps Farmers
August 11th, 2009
PHILIPPINES – The government is urging pig and poultry farmers to adapt gas-fed generators to run on biogas, and simple technology is already available for the conversion.
To contribute to a cleaner environment and help cushion the adverse effects of global warming, owners of piggery and poultry farms are being urged by the Department of Science and Technology to make use of a technology that easily converts gas-fed generators into biogas generators, according to Manila Bulletin.
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