Production Guide for Abaca
By pinoyfarmer | October 16, 2008
Introduction
Abaca (Musa textiles Nee) or Manila hemp, as it is known in international trade, is endemic in the Philippines. About 84% of the world’s supply of abaca comes from the Philippines. Most of these come from the abaca-growing regions like Bicol, Visayas, and Mindanao.
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Cashew Nut Processing
By pinoyfarmer | October 14, 2008
Introduction
The cashew tree is evergreen. It grows up to 12 metres high and has a spread of 25 metres.
Its extensive root system allows it to tolerate a wide range of moisture levels and soil types, although, commercial production is advisable only in well-drained, sandy loam or red soils.
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How to make Banana Vinegar
By pinoyfarmer | October 14, 2008
Materials
- One part peeled ripe bananas (25 pieces,medium-sized)
- Two parts water
- ¼ part sugar
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How to make Banana Wine
By pinoyfarmer | October 12, 2008
- Peel ripe bananas and slice thinly
- Measure. To every one part sliced bananas, add one-and-one-a-half parts water.
- Boil for 30 minutes or longer depending upon the quantity of the pulp.
- Strain
- Add sugar to the extract (one part sugar to every three parts extract).
- Stir and boil to dissolve the sugar. Sugar content should be 22-24 degrees. Brix.
- Allow to cool.
- Place in clean glass container or demi-johns.
- Inoculate with yeast (one tablespoon Red Star yeast to every 40 liters of boiled sweetened juice).
- Plug mouth of demi-john with a clean piece of paper to protect from dust.
- Ferment for a mouth.
- Siphon out the clear fermented liquid.
- Filter and transfer to a sterilized oak barrel for aging
- Cover hole with a wooden plug and seal with melted paraffin
- Age for two years or longer.
- Clarify the wine with eggwhites (eight eggwhites for every 30 liters of wine) by heating the aged wine in stream bath or heating the age wine in steam bath or a double boiler to a temperature of 55-60 degrees Celsius while adding the well-beaten eggwhites.
- Stir to maintain the temperature to 15-20 minutes.
- Cool.
- Filter the wine and bottle by siphoning into clear and sterilized bottles.
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How to make Pastillas de Saging (Banana Tablets)
By pinoyfarmer | October 12, 2008
- Boil ripe Saba, then peel and slice to 3-cm thick.
- Prepared half a cup of water for every two cups of sliced banana and 300 grams sugar
for every kilo of the same. Mix and mash the ingredients and cook in low heat while
mixing until the ingredients become uniform, shiny, and no longer stick to tha pan. - Tranfer the mixture to a kneading board covered with wax paper and with sugar sprinkled
over it. Press with a long rolling pin until the mixture becomes 1-cm thick, then add butter
and sugar according to taste. Slice to piece 4 cm x 4 cm thick. Let cool before packing in
candy wrappers.
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Growing the Cashew Plant
By pinoyfarmer | October 10, 2008
THE PLANT
In the Philippines, cashew is called kasoy or balubad in Tagalog or Balogo in Ilokano. It originated from north-eastern Brazil and was brought to the Philippines in the 17th Century. At present, cashew is cultivated in many tropical countries, the main producers are Brazil, India, Mozambique and Tanzania.
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How to Grow Bananas
By pinoyfarmer | October 9, 2008
Banana is one of the most common and widely grown fruit crops in the Philippines. It is also one of the country’s major dollar earners, and has consistently ranked next to coconut oil and prawns in terms of value earnings during the last five
years.
In 1991, banana topped local production among the other major fruits such as pineapple and mango, thus eating upmore than one-third of the production pie.
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Pork prices down in Metro Manila markets
By pinoyfarmer | October 9, 2008
Retail prices of choice pork items like liempo, pigue and kasim have started to go down in Metro Manila markets from their week-ago rates of as high as P160-P170 per kilo following last Monday’s agreement by major hog industry players and Department of Agriculture (DA) officials to adopt a “reference price” band of P140 to P150 for these prime cuts.
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D.A. has task force to oversee implementation of palay, corn flagship programs
By pinoyfarmer | October 9, 2008
A national task force is in place at the Department of Agriculture (DA) to oversee the implementation of President Arroyo’s flagship Ginintuang Masaganang Ani (GMA) programs for palay and corn to ensure the efficient use of public funds and resources for these food security initiatives.
DA Secretary Yap told Commissioner Reynaldo Villar of the Commission on Audit (COA) that the National Task Force, which he created through Special Order No. 380, comprises four teams to check on the various aspects of the implementation of the GMA Rice and Corn Programs.
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Conservation Tillage Systems - A Few Guidelines and How to do it
By pinoyfarmer | October 9, 2008
Conservation tillage (CT) is more than just a farming practice. It promises to reduce labor and farm inputs while increasing and sustaining productivity and profitability. The usual; practice of most corn farmers is to plow the fields 1-3 times coupled with some secondary tillage practices such as harrowing, and furrowing before crop establishment. These are done to control existing vegetation (weeds, ratoons and stubbles of previous crops) while preparing a food seedbed.
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