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Bongong Warns Soil Quality 'under Threat'
Bongong Warns Soil Quality 'under Threat'
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Wednesday said the quality of soil in the Philippines was “under threat” and warned that “more serious consequences” could happen if the country failed to address the issue. About 75 percent of the Philippines’ “total crop land is vulnerable to erosion in various degrees, with agriculture losing about 457 million tons of soil annually.
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Published at 2023-06-23 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Business, Environment, News and Events
Tags: Marcos, President, agriculture, farming, production
Philippine Onion: Most Expensive in the World
Philippine Onion: Most Expensive in the World
The retail price of red onions ranging from P550 to P700 per kilo in markets around Metro Manila on New Year's Eve made unpleasant headlines during the festive season. Red onion was sold at P90 to P120 in mid-2021 and P120 to P170 four months ago. Onion prices hover around P85 in Singapore, P55 in Vietnam, P35 in China and in India.
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Published at 2023-01-08 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Business, Food and Dining, Society
Tags: China, agriculture, country, farming, government, production
Hope for the Farmers
Hope for the Farmers
Cherrie Atilano is the founding farmer and CEO of AGREA Agricultural Systems, an innovative and inclusive agribusiness enterprise anchored on sustainable agriculture, fair trade and a replicable model of an agri-based economy.
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Published at 2021-10-22 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Business, News and Events, Society
Tags: Market, agriculture, farming, production
Cebu City to Push for Agricultural Development
Cebu City to Push for Agricultural Development
ebu City Councilor Philip Zafra is planning to propose an ordinance that would encourage agricultural development in the city. Zafra said that the coronavirus pandemic has showed that Cebu City is not secured with its food supply, relying on imports from the province and other regions for commodities.
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Published at 2020-07-09 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Environment, News and Events, Society
Tags: COVID-19, agriculture
Save Farming and Our Farmers
Save Farming and Our Farmers
Barely 24 hours after announcing that he would order the suspension of rice importation “to avoid riots” among farmers impoverished by the Rice Tariffication Law, President Duterte did an abrupt turnaround and said he would just ramp up the government’s rice purchase and give cash subsidies to small farmers.
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Published at 2019-11-24 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Business, News and Events, Politics
Tags: Rice, agriculture, country, farming, farming
Wanted: A New Agriculture to Face Climate Change
Wanted: A New Agriculture to Face Climate Change
There's a scene in the 2014 film “César Chavez” where a group of Filipino farm workers gather in a labor camp and fill the night sky with cries of protest. It's a palpable call for justice in the face of violence, but one of the few times in the hour-and-a-half movie where Filipinos are shown on screen.
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Published at 2018-09-07 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Environment, Society
Tags: Rice, Workers, agriculture, farming, research
Wanted: A New Agriculture to Face Climate Change
Wanted: A New Agriculture to Face Climate Change
A field in Oxnard, California, a top berry-producing region for the state and a historic home to Filipino farm workers. Climate change is presenting new challenges to food-producing systems, including increased rainfall, higher temperatures and extensive drought.
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Published at 2018-03-13 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Opinion
Tags: Change, agriculture, climate
101 Reasons to Use Coconut
101 Reasons to Use Coconut
Philippines as a tropical country is abundant of coconut trees. The coconut industry is a dominant sector of the Philippine agriculture. According to the Philippine Coconut Authority of the Department of Agriculture.
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Published at 2018-02-14 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Health, Lifestyle
Tags: agriculture, coconut, tropical
Sugar
Sugar
From the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-1970s, sugar was the most important agricultural export of the Philippines, not only because of the foreign exchange earned, but also because sugar was the basis for the accumulation of wealth of a significant segment of the Filipino elite. The principal sugarcane-growing region is the Western Visayas,
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Published at 2018-02-14 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Documentary
Tags: agriculture, export
Copra
Copra
Copra is the dried meat or kernel of the coconut, which is the fruit of the coconut palm (Cocos nucifera). Coconut oil is extracted from copra, making it an important agricultural commodity for many coconut-producing countries. It also yields coconut cake, which is mainly used as feed for livestock.
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Published at 2018-02-14 by Puerto Parrot
Categories: Culture, Documentary, Fauna and flora
Tags: Copra, agriculture, coconut