Malpractices in fertilizer trade to be discussed at publishers’ conference Exhorbitant fertilizer prices, which have increased by almost 300 percent within a period of less than a year, have weakened productivity in the country’s agricultural lands consisting of millions of hectares, even as the worsening food crisis has started to create social unrest in depressed rural communities.
Day with hands-on goat farm owners It is always highly enlightening to talk to hands-on farmers because they know best the problems as well as the potentials of the particular business they are in.
More insights on goat farming In our column last Thursday, we introduced you to Rene Almeda and his two sons who are operating the Alaminos Goat Farm in Laguna.