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Nutriplant SL Liquid or SD Powder Nutritional Organic Fertilizer designed to be applied to seeds before planting. It's a micro-nutrient supplement that gives seedlings what they need, once germinated, to get a healthy strong start on the growing season.

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Nutriplant SL will get the crop up and out of the ground faster, with stronger root systems, and stems. Crops will be better able to compete for nutrients, water, sunlight, and fight off disease and sickness. Test trials have demonstrated crop yield increases 15% plus, though results will vary with the growing conditions of each cropping season.

Nutriplant SL is intended as a supplement to a regular fertilizer program and will allow farmers to use less products with their regular fertilizer application program.

Nutriplant SL or SD Seed Dressing Benefits and Features

Better crop stand. Stronger and bigger root system. Increased and better crop yield. Quicker seed germination

Develops a stronger and bigger root system for plants. Formulated to improve the plants ability to utilize nutrients in the soil and to enhance seed germination emergence and root growth. Use as a seed treatment / coating to achieve stronger seedlings & plantlets.

Mix Rate: 2 ml Nutriplant SL per one liter of water, or about 200 ml to 500 ml Nutriplant SL for every 200 liters of water depending upon the crop seed. Contact us for specific crop seed application rate information.

Vital Secondary & Micro Organic Nutrients Included

Calcium
Sulfur
Magnesium
Iron
Zinc
Manganese
Copper
Cobalt
Molybdenum

Nutriplant SL Seed Treatment

250 ml Liquid - P765.00

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Nutriplant SD Powder or Nutriplant SL Liquid

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Soil Conditioning For Rice

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Good healthy soil is one of the most important parts of many in receiving a bountiful rice and any other crop harvest with high quality.

Before you even get started planting, it's best to test your soil and determine what you'll be working with. Take some soil to have it analyzed, or perform a pH test on your own with a pH test kit.

After you've determined the type of soil and the soil’s composition, it's time to condition your soil. This is the point at which you will give your future crops the best chance of producing an abundance of rice, vegetables, and fruit growth to meet your goals and expectations.

Understand that you will be conditioning the soil not only to improve its nutrient values, but also to improve and increase drainage. Along with natural organic soil conditioning methods such as composting, applying manure, worm castings, and other organic waste matter, using APSA80 excellent easy fast and low cost way to condition the soil for optimal growing conditions.

Soil Conditioning For Rice Using Apsa80 Adjuvant

Rice Seed Bed Preparation:

1. Spray Apsa 80 at 8(80 ml) tbsp/16 liters of water 2-3 days before Sowing (Spray apsa 80 after plowing)

Rice Land Preparation:

2. Spray Apsa 80 at 8 tbsp (80ml/16 liters of water 2-3 days before transplanting (Spray apsa 80 after plowing)

3. For 1.0 hectare spray 10-12 spray loads of Apsa 80 as soil conditioner


Use Apsa80 To Help Thoroughly Mixed All Kinds of Chemicals. To Increase Their Effectiveness, and Reduce Input Costs

1. Mix APSA 80 to all the pesticides (insecticides, molluscicides and fungicides) to be used in the rice fields at the rate of 5ml (1 teaspoon) per 16 liters of water (1 full load knapsack sprayer).

2. Spray snail killer (molluscicide) with APSA 80, 2 – 4 days before direct seeding or before transplanting.

3. Spray APSA 80 (as a fertilizer activator) at the rate of 40 ml (4 tablespoons) per 16 liters of water, 4 days before seeding or transplanting. Be sure that the soil is not flooded (only at field capacity). APSA 80 can also be applied to non-irrigated soils.

4. For the application of herbicide, add 2-3 teaspoons of APSA 80 per 16 liters of water.

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Submergence Tolerant Rice Now Available To Farmers

Submergence-tolerant rice variety now available to local farmers.

PhilRice, Nueva Ecija — The NSIC Rc194, also known as Submarino 1, the first submergence-tolerant rice variety in the Philippines, is now available to local farmers.

Hanah Hazel Mavi Biag, science research specialist 1 here, said Submarino 1 is IR64 infused with submergence-tolerant gene and was discovered by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the University of California-Davis from Indian rice variety FR13A.

“Submarino 1 is a nongenetically engineered rice plant that can survive, grow and develop even after 10 days of complete submergence in water at vegetative stage,” said Nenita Desamero, plant breeder from the Department of Agriculture (DA)-PhilRice and team leader of the on-farm testing of submergence rice in the Philippines.

Under favorable conditions, Submarino 1 will have the same-yield performance as IR64 (that averages 4.5 tons per hectare), and under submergence conditions, it will survive and recover unlike the latter.

Submarino 1 matures in 112 to 116 days with a plant height of 90 to 95 cm. Desamero, however, advises farmers not to grow Submarino 1 in blast- and tungro-stricken areas.

Biag said before the 2008 wet season, Submarino 1 was first introduced to farmers in San Antonio, Nueva Ecija, a catch basin of its neighboring municipalities.

Recently, the DA-PhilRice, together with the 12 DA regional field units, have started conducting adaptation trials of Submarino 1 and other Sub1 lines such as Swarna-Sub1, IR49830-7-1-2-3 and PhilRice lines in select municipalities around the country.

For the seed increase of Submarino 1, 0.3 hectare is allotted for the production of breeder seeds and 0.5 ha for foundation seeds this 2009 wet season, but will expand in the 2010 dry season.  More commercial seeds will be made available to target farmers by 2010 wet season, Biag explained.

Biag added that the collaborative project of the DA-PhilRice and IRRI is comprised of “the implementation plans to disseminate submergence-tolerant rice varieties and associated new production practices to Southeast Asia” and is funded by Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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DA Expecting Rice Harvest Reduction

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DA-8 unfazed by forecast of lower rice yield this year.

Tacloban City - The Department of Agriculture (DA) is expecting a 7.3% reduction in palay output this year in Eastern Visayas, making it the first negative growth for the past nine years.

Citing report from the Bureau of Agriculture Statistics, DA regional executive director Leo Cañeda said that the region might fail to reach the one million metric tons (MT) harvest in 2009.

“We expect area harvested to go down in case of flooding and damages from pests,” he said.

The report, according to the official, was validated by the local government unit and growing claims from Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation.

But Cañeda said he is unfazed by the forecast, saying that the DA-8 would still aim to overshoot the one million MT mark this year.

To avert the forecasted production shortfall, the agriculture department would step up the promotion of rice ratooning technology being piloted in Ormoc City and has been expanding to nearby towns as well as the quick turn around (QTA).

“I just hope the weather will cooperate with us,” he said.

During the first semester of 2009, palay or unhusked rice production was recorded at 518,174 MT, which is down compared to the same period in 2008’s 565,175 MT harvest.

From July to December, the agriculture department is expecting a 437,160 MT production. If minimal floods occurring in a long period will continue, the region will only harvest 955,334 MT of palay for the whole year.

Last year, Eastern Visayas provinces recorded a 1.03 MT palay output, the first time that the region breached the one million MT mark.

“This is the first time for 10 years because in the past nine years, there has always been an uptrend in Region 8 as far as palay production is concern,” Cañeda said in an interview.

The 2009 figure, however, is a little higher that the actual 948,827 MT production in 2007.

“It’s not a very encouraging forecast since the drop is 7.3% compared to last year but the decrease is lower than in Central Visayas, which is 7.62%,” he added.

Western Visayas , on the other hand, is projected to incur a 5% increase in palay output from 2008 to 2009.

In Ormoc City alone, at least 4,500 hectares of rice farm here are being devoted in the next five years for an indigenous practice of double hybrid rice harvest, the first technology application in the country institutionalized by a local government unit.

Rice ratooning is a technology that regenerates the growth of new rice tillers after rice harvest. The formation of shoots from the mother crop after the previous growth would mean additional yield after 45 days.

“We’re intensifying our campaign on the application of rice ratooning to be able to maximize productivity especially in irrigated areas planted to hybrid and certified seeds,” Cañeda explained.

In previous interviews with farmers who practiced the technology, they claimed that they gained additional harvest of 20 to 36 sacks of rice per hectare.

The DA regional office will also continue the implementation of Quick-Turn Around strategy- a high productivity program to respond with the exigency of abnormal weather.

“There is still an opportunity to avert the situation from actually occurring. This had happened several times also in the past. At time when we thought the total production would decline because that’s what the forecast said. By the end of the year, we actually able to prove that our performance remains positive,” Cañeda pointed out.

The agriculture department projected to maintain a 3% to 4% growth in regional farm sector this year that would drive to recovery from the bad impact of global financial crunch in the country.

Cañeda earlier said that they are positive of growth in agriculture in 2009 but it’s not as high compared to the past years considering the present economic condition.

By Leyte Samar Daily

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Gov Daza Provides Equipment To Farmers

Gov. Daza leads distribution of hand-tractors, rice threshers and shallow tube wells to farmers.

Catarman, Northern Samar – Gov. Raul Daza leads in the distribution of 20 units of hand-tractors, 20 shallow tube wells and 14 units of rice threshers to farmers here in a simple turn-over rites on Aug. 7, 2009 at the Provincial Agriculture Compound, which was attended by key personnel and staff of the Provincial Agriculture Office headed by PA Damian Asero.

Thus, said Damian Asero, provincial agriculturist in an interview over the province radio program dubbed ‘Sumat Kapitolyo’ and is hosted by this writer aired every Sunday from 11-11:30 am when he guested on August 9, 2009.

According to him, the continuing assistance to farmers is the 3rd trance of farm equipment distribution under the farm mechanization program of the Daza administration anchored on the FLESHER program particularly, on the food security program.

He added, the farmer-recipients from several towns has underwent a thorough and strict validation by a team composed from his office as to what their qualifications as farmer-beneficiary among other requisites in a first-come-first-serve basis. Under the contract they signed between the provincial government and the farmer-beneficiary before its distribution, a farmer is obliged to pay 70% of the total price in an installation basis for 2 years, while the remaining 30% is being subsidized by the provincial government. The said farm implements are sourced-out from the provincial coffer this province that aims to enhance the productivity of rice farmers here.

Apart from this, Asero explained, in their recent activity, his office, under the fisheries division, were able to established ‘payao’ in the municipality of Pambujan and San Roque as well as distributed fishing paraphernalia in other municipalities of the first district that aims to help the marginalized fisher folks. They also at same time distributed for free vegetable seeds after their series of seminars on organic vegetable farming.

Meanwhile, the provincial government here is scheduled to inaugurate the newly-finished Provincial Seed Laboratory. The said facility that aims to cater the needs of the farmers here for seed-testing not to be depending from Babatngon, Leyte as the source of certified seeds in every cropping season. Asero added, the province has also an existing laboratory for ‘metarhizium culture’ in preventing ‘tayangao’ or rice black bug that is always severely affecting rice fields here. The said metarhizium culture is a kind of insect that fights against the escalation of black bugs and is safe from humans and rice fields, said Asero.

By Leyte Samar Daily

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Agri-Business Foreign Investment

PCCI welcomes foreign investments in agribusiness.

The country’s biggest business organization, the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), is backing the government’s policy of allowing foreign investments in the country’s big plantations, as long as the investors do not violate Philippine laws.

PCCI vice president for agriculture Bobby Amores expressed the group’s stand during an open forum announcing the holding of the 2009 Philippine Business Conference on October 20 and 21.

The question was raised due to a growing debate on whether the Philippines will open its doors to the raising of food and other farm crops like palm oil in large plantations by big companies.  Investors with deep pockets from Malaysia, China, South Korea and several countries in the Middle East have been on the prowl since last year for large tracks of land in the country to raise crops that they plan to export to their home countries.

The latest that hit the news was a 46,000-hectare land in Mindoro which a South Korean private company leased from owners. The deal hit a snag when it was found that the investors did not consult the concerned government agencies like the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Agriculture (DA).

“The investors should have consulted those agencies to be able to comply with Philippine laws,” Amores said. “If they organized a corporation which is 60-percent owned by local investors, they would have complied with the strict provisions of the Constitution on land ownership.”

Amores, who also sits as a trustee of the Philippine Exporters Confederation Inc. and head of the Philippine Food Processors and Exporters Confederation, said there is nothing to fear on foreign investments in agriculture to bolster the country’s food exports.

“The problem with our agriculture policy,” he observed, “is the government’s fixation with raising rice and corn at the expense of other crops that could bring more income to farmers.” 

“Foreign and local investors could bridge that gap,” he explained.

The new interest in agribusiness from foreign players came on the heels of the rice crisis last year when international prices hit $1,000 per ton. This turned out to be a bonanza for farmers in rice-exporting countries like Vietnam and Thailand.

Foreign investors that have touched base with the DA have been more keen at producing high-value crops like palm oil and rubber for Malaysia, fruits and poultry for Middle Eastern investors, tropical fruits and vegetables for the Koreans, and raw materials for biofuels for transnational green companies.

The DA has offered big areas of idle government lands for development while some critics have expressed concern that the entry of foreign investors, intent at selling what they produce to their home markets, might undermine the country’s bid to be self-sufficient in food.

The Philippines has long become import-dependent in feeding its 90 million citizens, exemplified by the importation of over 2 million tons of rice a year.

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More Farm To Market Roads

DA provides P2M financial support to Barugos farm-to-market roads.

Tacloban City - Barugo town’s multi-million farm-to-market road project under the Infrastructure for Rural Productivity Enhancement Sector (InFRES) program of the Department of Agriculture was given P2 million financial support from the provincial government of Leyte.

The amount would provide the additional counterpart fund of the local government unit of Barugo to complete the road construction project that would benefit 14 of the total 37 barangays of the municipality.

The P2 million financial assistance was given by Leyte Governor Carlos Jericho Petilla to Barugo Mayor Alden Avestruz during the former’s latest visit to this Leyte Second District town.

It was learned from Mayor Avestruz that he has been asking the province for counterpart fund of the said INFRES project so it can be realized soon.

The project, funded under the INFRES program of the DA and with other financial support sourced from the national and the beneficiary local government unit, is one of the last phase of INFRES project in the region and is expected to be completed by the middle of 2009.

Mayor Avestruz said the project proposal was five years in the making and was started during the incumbency of then Mayor Juliana Villasin, who now sits as the town’s vice-mayor.

Groundbreaking of the project transpired in October 2008 in Brgy. Hiagsam, Barugo, Leyte, the same time the mayor was assured by the governor of a financial support for the said project from the provincial government.

Also, it was learned in the appraisal report conducted together with the DA Regional Office that Barugo, having a total road network of 113 kilometers of which more than 75 kilometers are barangay roads, most of these are only classified as dirt roads further described as dilapidated and ruined by time and weather.

With this, Mayor Avestruz said, the need to upgrade the present road network is really important as it will directly benefit all the 4, 859 farmers within the subproject areas.

Mayor Avestruz added, they are expecting “increase in farm incomes due to the reduction in transport cost amounting to at least P514 per farmer.”

The bulk of the financing cost of this multi-million project would be from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The ADB loan proceeds will be utilized in accordance with the financial fund flow of the Infres project.

InFRES project was intended to remove constraints to agricultural productivity by investing in rural infrastructure in regions with high poverty incidence and high agricultural potential. Its immediate objectives are to remove the constraints to the improvement of agricultural productivity caused by the lack or inadequacy of rural infrastructure, and to reduce rural poverty by increasing agricultural productivity and profitability.

There are 9 regions, 41 provinces, 779 municipalities covered by the project in the entire country. Several strategies were identified in the implementation of the project that include participatory approaches applied at all stages of the project implementation; demand driven; strengthened decentralization; improved operation and maintenance and greater transparency through independent project monitoring system.

By Leyte Samar Daily

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Dole Partners Seminar

From left: Pearly Avengoza, Raymond Lim and Dang Cruz from Landmark, Dole Asia president James Prideaux, Dole Philippines general manager Brenda Te, Ronald Billiones and Iris Francia.

The business of selling “fresh produce” in these times means engaging everyone involved in the food-distribution chain on the necessary innovation and quality standards to ensure that what goes onto the shelves, right up to the consumers’ forks, is indeed fresh and safe.

Dole, a global producer and marketer of high-quality fresh fruits and vegetables committed to fulfill its customers’ needs and consumers’ expectations in the critical areas of quality assurance and food safety, recently held the first-ever Fresh Produce Seminar entitled “Fresh Farm and Beyond” at Dusit Thani Hotel, Makati.

The event sought to expand and deepen the knowledge of their business partners and potential clients on fresh produce. The seminar also discussed cutting-edge farming techniques, harvesting processes and handling requirements of Dole produce, including bananas, pineapples, papayas, asparagus and other vegetables. This allowed clients to discover the delicate step-by-step process products undergo, from seed to shelf to fork.

The seminar also highlighted the importance of addressing quality management, assurance and food safety in the production and distribution of products that bear the Dole trademark.

Dole headlined its continuing efforts to develop new innovative food offerings through state-of-the-art production and processing infrastructure. These new offerings include a growing line of value-added products and ready-to-eat food offerings such as the Apple Slices and Cavendish Singles that focus on providing healthy snacking options and convenience to consumers by being widely available in supermarkets, convenience stores, fast-food chains and gas stations.

Topping the event was a showcase of the marketing programs and products Dole is set to launch during the remainder of the year. Leveraging on being the world’s largest producer and marketer of high-quality fresh fruits and vegetables, Dole provides consumers in more than 90 countries with high-quality food products. While maintaining its strong global market leadership, it also continues to strengthen its commitment to the Philippine market with local farms located in the northern and southern parts of the country that deliver the freshest fruit and vegetable offerings available nationwide.

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Nescafe Coffee Farming Training

Sultan Kudarat coffee grower benefits from Nescafé training.

A two year old coffee-tree nursery is set to share Nescafé technology to farmers in Sultan Kudarat, the leading coffee-producing province in the country.

D and R Farms is scheduled to harvest 200,000 rooted cuttings of Robusta coffee from which Nescafé, the country’s leading instant coffee brand, is made.

D and R Farms is owned by Dr. Dante Eugenio and managed by his brother, Edgar Eugenio, a retired pharmaceutical executive and a graduate of the coffee-specialist course in Nestlé’s experimental and demonstration farm (NEDF) in Tagum, Davao City.

“We are excited about the renewed interest of farmers in coffee,” said Edgar. “In Kalamansig alone, our starting order last year was for 50,000 seedlings.”

Although their projected harvest by the end of the year is 100,000 short of their 300,000 target, Edgar is happy to see a potential boom in coffee farming in the province.

“Since our coffee-tree nursery is right along the highway, we get a lot of inquiry from local farmers who want to start small, to farm companies who want to start big,” claims Edgar.

In fact, Edgar has been encouraged to do consultancy for coffee farming recently. Today, he is doing a feasibility study for one company for a 200-hectare coffee farm.

Located in the town of Chua, D and R Farm’s one-hectare coffee-nursery farm built two years ago in upland area is part of Nescafé’s project to build demo-coffee farms across the country to promote its latest technology in coffee farming.

The farm showcases Nescafé’s coffee-based sustainable-farming system (CBSFS). Nescafé’s sustainable-farming system encourages farmers to use coffee as a main crop and a variety of secondary crops to provide additional or alternative income for the farmers.

Since rows of coffee trees are ideally planted five meters apart, CBSFS promotes the planting of companion crops like ampalaya, bell pepper, cabbage, eggplant, kamote, lettuce, peanuts, spring onion, string beans, ube and upland kangkong to maximize the space.

“Aside from squash and peanuts, we are experimenting in growing strawberry as a secondary crop here in the uplands of Chua,” reveals Edgar.

More important, D and R Farm has put Nescafé’s high-yielding Robusta planting materials within the farmer’s reach in Sultan Kudarat since Chua is the gateway to the coffee towns of Kulaman, Lebak and Kalamansig.

“Farmers in our area no longer have to travel 400 kilometers to NEDF in Tagum to get good Robusta planting materials,” says Edgar. “With the help of Nescafé, our coffee-demo farm and nursery has become self-sufficient and can now supply planting materials to farmers in our province and the whole Cotabato region, as well.”

Established in 1994, NEDF in Tagum City provides free technical training which ranges from three days to two weeks, covers the latest in coffee-production technology from nursery management, planting and cultivation, harvesting up to marketing and is conducted for free and without any government subsidy.

It also offers free pamphlets, brochures, manuals and other coffee-farming literature. NEDF also sells coffee planting materials such as seedlings and cuttings at cost price.

“I am really glad I had the chance to study coffee farming with Nescafé,” says Edgar. “Knowledge is a seed I am more than happy to share with everyone.”

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