Household waste disposal can be money-making, money-saving and job generating. Just like what they are doing in Las Piñas City.  

One effective way of gathering useful techniques and know-how in farming is by joining farm tours. 

So you want to raise native chickens. 

Helping Indigenous Peoples (IPs) harness their ancestral lands could contribute to the production of more food and other necessities. If the huge ancestral lands set aside for our brothers in the uplands are farmed in a sustainable way, rural poverty could be alleviated and there could be less peace and order problems. 

The annual garden show of the Philippine Horticultural Society will open with the ceremonial ribbon cutting at 4 p.m. today at the Quezon Memorial Circle in Quezon City.  

They are in their early 40s and are both working for a construction company in Manila. This early Gilbert and Anita Catudio are thinking of their retirement so they bought a small farm in Anita’s hometown of Magdalena in Laguna. 

One of the first things that former Senator Leticia Shahani told us when we met her at the recent Agri-Kapihan in Carmen, Rosales, Pangasinan was that we should not only write about successful farmers. We should also write about farming failures.  

One of the most-attended Agri-Kapihan sessions was held last Saturday, January 14, at the experimental farm of Known-You Philippines in Carmen, Rosales, Pangasinan.  

If you are receiving P270,000 salary a month would you give up your job even if your bosses are not asking you to resign? For many people, they would probably think not only twice but many times over. 

Foreign floriculture experts will dominate the speakers at the two-day Floriculture Congress on February 24-25 at the conference hall of the Bureau of Soils and Water Management in Quezon City.  

An ongoing research on forage crops for goats points to a very promising potential of Indigofera as an excellent source of protein for both the dairy and meat type goats. 

The melon family – watermelon, cantaloupe and honeydew - are major crops in Taiwan.  

A leading breeder of purebred Brahman cattle in Batangas has come up with a liberal investment package for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) as well as for interested retirees.  

Make sure to get a copy of the January 2012 Agriculture Magazine which is now off the press. You will read about the amazing feats of desert farmers in Israel, producing record harvests of high-value crops and the highest milk yield per cow in the world. 

One possible new project for enterprising agribusiness people is growing cherry tomato. Not so many Filipino farmers are familiar with this miniature tomato whose fruits are about the size of most seedless grapes. 

Seed companies are continually developing new crop varieties in order to provide solutions to the concerns of farmers, creating new opportunities for them in the process.  

An Israeli invention is poised to catapult pomegranate, heretofore considered mostly as a minor fruit, into something of major importance.  

High-tech agriculture in Israel is producing record yields in both animal and field crops. 

How can vegetable farmers in a desert produce 300 tons of tomatoes in one year per hectare? 

We often hear that when you go into farming, you should devote your full time to it to make sure that your project will be successful.