Bringing Back the Heirloom Rice

Tinawon variety Heirloom rice maybe forgotten. Just like our forefathers, it was been kept from the past and today's generation might don't even know about how they looks like, their name, their history of how they fed the past generations. Who might even know about Makonting, Balatinao, Kadiling, Paskaren, Mayoc, Potaw, Kalias, Knchot, Bongkitan, Dayong, Gal-ong, Lamadya, Kabal, Sing-itan, Lasbakan, Saba, Saboli, Makanining, Talangkay, Kumbisyon, Salili, Kwalti-an, Balasyaw, Ipugao, Palgay, Lalay, Babantinya and others? On how these sturdy rice varieties dwell in the summit of rice terraces in Cordillera. Their time may have gone now. And high-breed variety replaced their name. From the seat of the 8th Wonder of the World, the preservation...

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The Road to Organic Farming

Filipinos are getting conscious about their health. The rise of different incurable diseases among humans maybe the one problem why our farmers are shifting from the "known technology" and getting back to organic farming. Using organic farming, farmers will lessen the use of chemical-based pesticides in their plants. It will also diminish the cost of capital expenditures and turn these budgets into profit. - - - - - - - - - - - Kalinga drafts 5-year organic agriculture roadmap By Larry T. Lopez TABUK, Kalinga, Feb. 24 (PIA) – Kalinga agriculture authorities and stakeholders have organized a three-day workshop to draft the province’s five-year agriculture roadmap for 2012 to 2016. Rice Program Coordinator Joe Casibang of the Office of...

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Wood: New Technology of Mobile Phone

A London-based university student is set to launch the world's first smartphone made out of wood aimed at the high-end fashionable set. ...

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Agriculture and Population Together

As the population grows, the demand for foods multiply also. There are large amount of mouth to feed yet our country still can't produce sufficiency. Philippines rely on importation. Our country still the top imported of rice in the world. - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2020 vision looks forward to farming 10 years hence http://www.malaya.com.ph/02242012/agri1.html IN the next decade, at least P50 billion to P60 billion in public expenditure is needed each year to modernize Philippine agriculture and fisheries. Up to 2006, the annual appropriations to the Department of Agricutlure was only about P18 billion to P20 billion. It has since more than doubled to P54 billion. Thus, the lack of fund has ceased to be a real constraint. Hence,...

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