Planting Tissue-Cultured Dwarf Banana: A Promising and Profitable Venture for Agri-Entrepreneurs

Saba banana is now being tissue-cultured for commercial planting. This is called Mama Sita banana. This kind of banana was introduced from Thailand through Mama Sita Foundation.

How to Start Your Own Backyard Piggery Business

Want to start your own backyard piggery business but don’t know what to do. Don’t worry, here’s a simple guide for you to learn the basics of backyard piggery business.

For this guide, here’s the tips of Rolly Bautista, 51, seasoned pig farmer with some basic know how for people who want to get into this kind of business. Rolly, who maintains a 200-square meter pig cage in his backyard in Apalit, Pampanga, has been in this line of business since 2000.

Mushroom Growing Benefits in the City

Mushroom growing can be undertaken by urban dwellers as well as those living in the countryside. It can be undertaken as a commercial venture or just as a hobby for producing one’s own home requirements of mushroom, especially oyster mushroom.

10 Effective Tips on Raising Free-range Chickens for Commercial Purposes

You may think that raising free-range chickens like Solraya Sunshine free-range chickens is simple. But there are many mistakes committed by chicken raisers right from the start when they buy their chicks.

Two ABS Vermiculture Seminars for October and November

Aquatic Biosystems (ABS), the country’s pioneer in vermiculture science and technology, has lined up two seminar-trainings on vermicompost and vermimeal production. The training on Household and Urban Vermicomposting will be held at its home base in Bay, Laguna on October 17 while another Farm-based Vermicompost and Vermimeal Production will be held on November 20, also at the ABS Farm in Bay, Laguna.

How to Produce High Value Organic and Green Foods from Coconut Sap

Sequential toddy & nut production (SCTNP) technology which produces toddy and nuts from the same spathe of the palms has provided the farmers to increase farm income without sacrificing the copra products and fully maximize the economic potential of the palms with the addition of another product which is the coconut sap or toddy. It has high total sugar, ascorbic acid, phosphorus, and rich in amino acids, vitamins and minerals. It can be an alternative source of sugar and other products like sap drink (fresh cooled beverage), coco nectar (syrup) and sap vinegar which are high value food products.

Keys to Successful Broiler Production

Dr. Edgar Orden of the Central Luzon State University’s broiler contract growing project has listed some of the keys to success in broiler production.

Study Agri-Entrepreneurship Training Now and Pay Later

Want to study Agri-Entrepreneurship but cannot pursue it due to financial constraints? Here’s a solution for your problem. Apply for a Study Now Pay Later Plan in Agri-Entrepreneurship Training at the MFI Farm Business Institute.

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