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 on 23/06/2023 by puertoparrot
Categories: Business, Environment, News and Events
Tags: Marcos, President, agriculture, farming, production

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 on 08/01/2023 by puertoparrot
Categories: Business, Food and Dining, Society
Tags: China, agriculture, country, farming, government, production

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 on 22/10/2021 by puertoparrot
Categories: Business, News and Events, Society
Tags: Market, agriculture, farming, production

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 on 09/07/2020 by puertoparrot
Categories: Environment, News and Events, Society
Tags: COVID-19, agriculture

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 on 24/11/2019 by puertoparrot
Categories: Business, News and Events, Politics
Tags: Rice, agriculture, country, farming, farming

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 on 07/09/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Environment, Society
Tags: Rice, Workers, agriculture, farming, research

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 on 13/03/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Opinion
Tags: Change, agriculture, climate

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 on 14/02/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Health, Lifestyle
Tags: agriculture, coconut, tropical

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 on 14/02/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Documentary
Tags: agriculture, export

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 on 14/02/2018 by puertoparrot
Categories: Culture, Documentary, Fauna and flora
Tags: Copra, agriculture, coconut