177,000 ha of Mindanao land eyed for palm oil
The transformation of Mindanao into a major producer of palm oil in the next two years has started with major oil palm industry players teaming up with the government.
The transformation of Mindanao into a major producer of palm oil in the next two years has started with major oil palm industry players teaming up with the government.
Scientists have successfully bred a rice variety that is salt-tolerant, which could enable farmers to reclaim coastal areas rendered useless by sea water, a Philippine-based institute said Tuesday.
At least 1,000 dead ducks were found floating in a Chinese river, state media reported Monday, after Shanghai said it had almost finished recovering thousands of deceased pigs from its main waterway.
Every day, 34-year-old Donald Carpo rises very early to work on a 1.5-hectare vegetable farm near SM City Rosales here.
Labor leaders from Luzon on Friday tried to convince the House subcommittee on labor standards to endorse a measure that would increase daily wages by P125 during the last of a series of congressional hearings held near the town’s strawberry fields.
ROSALES, Pangasinan—Unless government intervenes soon, the backyard hog industry in the country will continue to suffer and may eventually die, an official of a hog raisers’ group here said. Rosendo So, president of the Northern Luzon Hog Raisers Cooperative, said this scenario is possible because of the country’s continuing meat importation which has resulted in [...]
Finally, justice for the farmers who struggled for 22 years to claim the land they have tended in the disputed Hacienda Luisita in Tarlac.
DAVAO CITY—At least 1,000 hectares of banana farms in Southern Mindanao have been destroyed so far by Fusarium, a disease with no known cure that organic farming advocates said was aggravated by the practice of monocropping in the region. The Pilipino Banana Growers and Exporters Association (PBGEA) said Fusarium, also known as Panama disease, had [...]
Environment officials are asking President Benigno Aquino to subsidize the maintenance of the Ifugao rice terraces by hiring farmers to oversee farms that have been abandoned by families seeking greener pastures outside the province.
VICTORIA, Laguna—Neighbors of Herbert “Obet” Pantua often wonder why his poultry and swine farm doesn’t stink. On a 1.6-hectare piece of land in Victoria town in Laguna, Pantua raises some 3,000 chickens and 200 hogs. Yet, visitors say they can only pick up the scent of fresh basil, oregano, lavender and many other herb varieties. [...]
Libyan troops loyal to Moammar Gadhafi forced civilians to act as human shields, perching children on tanks to deter NATO attacks, human rights investigators said. It was part of a pattern of rapes, slayings, “disappearances” and other war crimes that they said they found.
TRIPOLI—Libyans find it hard to believe that the green farm on the edge of the desert belonged to Moammar Gadhafi, who portrayed himself as a Bedouin who lived in tents and dined frugally on dates and camel milk. But amid the abundant fruit trees, flower beds and manicured lawns, the signs are there: the farm [...]
SCIENCE CITY OF MUÑOZ—Aiming to reach a “respectable level of agricultural mechanization in the country,” the government will deploy more than 90,000 pieces of farm equipment to beneficiaries until 2016, a top agriculture official said here. Ricardo Cachuela, executive director of the Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PhilMech), said hand tractors, transplanters, threshers, [...]
