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Experts see more forest destruction through farms

Tuesday, 06 December 2011 22:04 Articles from Outside - Internet Articles
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Farmers are likely to ignore the risks of further encroaching into upland forests because climate change is forcing them to, according to experts.

Edwino Fernando, a forest botanist of the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), and Roberto Cereno, deputy director of the Makiling Center for Mountain Ecosystems, explored this scenario with officials of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) last week.

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Claro Talaga: From politics to mushroom farming

Sunday, 27 November 2011 18:43 Articles from Outside - Internet Articles
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LUCBAN, Quezon—When Claro Talaga, 65, decided to hang up his political gloves in 1998, he turned to farming, overseeing an 11-hectare property in Barangay (village) Nagsinamo in Lucban, Quezon, at the foot of Mount Banahaw.

“I want a serene life after spending long years in politics. … Farming brings me contentment and the peace that I’m now enjoying,” said Talaga, a three-term provincial board member and executive secretary of two Quezon lawmakers for several years.

Early this year, a friend, who maintains a mushroom farm in another Lucban village, visited Nagsinamo and introduced him to the health benefits and business potential of growing mushrooms.

“When he saw my farm and three abandoned structures, he [found]… an ideal place for mushroom culturing. He invited me to his own mushroom farm and offered me a delicious meatless mushroom soup,” Talaga said.

The encounter initiated him into the business, plus the fact that his doctor had advised him to avoid eating meat and strictly maintain a diet because of his frail health.

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Talaga converted the three farm buildings that once housed a “nata de coco” factory into seven mushroom culturing rooms. Each room has an average of 700 fruiting bags of oyster and ganoderma varieties stacked in several racks.

To better understand his endeavor, he sought help from the University of the Philippines (UP) Los Baños in Laguna, which subsequently sent personnel to Lucban and conducted an on-site lecture to farm workers on the latest know-how on mushroom culturing.

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Tripling yields, placing mangoes on world market year-round

Sunday, 27 November 2011 17:51 Articles from Outside - Internet Articles
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FOR his many contributions that have had unprecedented impact on agriculture, Dr. Ramon C. Barba, now 72, was awarded the 2011 Umali Award by the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) last Wednesday in Los Baños.

The plant scientist from the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) is the first Filipino to receive the award and the third recipient in Southeast Asia.

The $10,000-award, given to outstanding Southeast Asian scientists, is named after the late National Scientist Dioscoro L. Umali, a founding Director of SEARCA and former Assistant Director General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

Foremost among Barba’s researches was a breakthrough discovery in 1974 of mango flower induction by potassium nitrate, making it possible for fruits to be available all year round.

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UP to launch PH Genome Center in Los Baños soon

Sunday, 13 November 2011 16:59 Articles from Outside - Internet Articles
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MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Genome Center (PGC) Agriculture Program will be launched at the University of the Philippines in Los Baños on November 28.

PGC executive director Dr. Carmen Padilla said the core of the PGC will be plant genetics and breeding laboratories and facilities at the Institute of Plant Breeding of UPLB.

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Rice sufficiency goal seen met by 2013

Tuesday, 27 September 2011 18:44 Articles from Outside - Internet Articles
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The Philippines has been misled into believing it suffers from a rice deficit since the previous government failed miserably in handling statistics on the per capita consumption (PCCP) of the staple, a University of the Philippines professor said.

Ted Mendoza, a professor at the UP Los Baños, said the Philippines is the only country in world that has been reporting annual increases in PCC over the past nine years.

This contrasts with findings of the National Nutrition Council and the Food and Nutrition Research Council that consumption rates had slowed down, he said.

The academic said the country will be self- sufficient in rice if the procedure for computing the country’s requirements is adjusted, noting the need to harmonize the data of the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics and that of the National Irrigation Administration given huge differences in areas planted to rice.

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