I was invited to discuss horticulture, my first love. My interest in plants brought me closer to nature, a foundation on my environmental advocacies.
Posts by tag: Food
The low buying price brought by rice liberalization has been killing farmers and the local economy.
“Kadayawan is a Bagobo word that means happiness. It’s a time our communities gather after harvest time, to thank the gods for the harvest. We celebrate through feasts, and with songs and dance played with our instruments,” he said.
Arroyo: Core of RP problems by Patricio P. Diaz/MindaNews GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / June 26) The President herself should…
Nearly a year since military operations were launched against two field commanders of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the…
DAVAO CITY — The government has assured participants in the recently concluded First Vegetable Marketing Summit that it is serious…
The Bureau of Food and Drugs (BFAD) regional office is testing samples of different brands of peanut butter and pistachio…
DTI sets organic cultivation training TAGUM CITY – “We have to brace for the crisis. Magkinaunsa man ta ani, pagkaon…
Mekong catfish, popularly known in Davao as “pangasius,” is a fish that naturally grows from the Mekong river delta. Thinking of the local “hito,” Mindanao fish growers easily relates to it. (davaotoday.com photo)
By Germelina A. Lacorte
Davao Today
A strange fish circled its way around the narrow confines of an aquarium that attracted crowds around the Vitarich booth in a recent Mindanao investment forum here. It had the head of a catfish, which reminds Mindanao growers of the local hito, but with the flat body of most saltwater fish. According to the posters that Vitarich posted on the wall, this catfish can grow as big as a shark.
Davao City-A Davao exporter of cardava banana has penetrated the United States market and shipped 20 tons of cardava that…