Posts by tag: Food

16 years ago

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Planting Rice Is Never Fun. Now that rice prices almost double and rice supply continue to dwindle, militant farmers group Kilusang Magbubukid sa Pilipinas in Southern Mindanao agitate for increased NFA procurement of local rice and for government to dismantle existing rice cartel. More pictures here.

(davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)

16 years ago

Mothers, kids bewail high price of rice

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Teresita Edir, a pushcart vendor in Agdao market, and her children join a recent march organized by the group Kadamay demanding the ouster of President Arroyo. Edir complains that her earnings could hardly buy a kilo of rice. “In Erap’s time, we could buy rice at P10 a kilo,” she recalls the time of former President Joseph Estrada. “Now, rice is P18 per kilo under Gloria! With a president like her, life only gets harder. She’s corrupt and she has not done anything to alleviate the situation of poor.” (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)

16 years ago

Disease-causing toxin found in Davao, Gensan rice

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The US FDA defines aflatoxin as toxic compounds produced by certain strains of the aspergillus fungus; it is toxic and carcinogenic. Exposure to high level of aflatoxin, according to the DOST, produces acute necrosis or tissue death, as well as cirrhosis and carcinoma of the liver.

16 years ago

My affair with tikoy

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Tikoy! Cooked to golden-brown perfection. (davaotoday.com photo by Jonald Mahinay)

Tikoy is the star of the Chinese New Year feast. In fact, it is called the Chinese New Year pudding. The sweet cake — made from glutinous rice, wheat starch, lard, water, and sugar — should never be absent from the table as it symbolizes family unity and closeness.

16 years ago

Beware of food that kills softly, Davao advocates warn

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Safe food advocates have warned the public about buying vegetables, fruits and other food products in the market that leave the body with a killing-me-softly effect. The warning came during a gathering of organic producers and environmentalists here Tuesday, in time for the global celebration of the World Food Day.

17 years ago

JPEPA bad for Davao’s banana growers — Ibon

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Exports of Philippine-grown bananas and pineapples, most of them from the Davao region and other parts of Mindanao, may increase with the implementation of the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA), but it will benefit agribusiness transnational corporations and not Filipino growers, according to independent think-tank Ibon Foundation.

17 years ago

DA sets 5 ‘bagsakan’ centers for Southern Mindanao

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The government is working on five bagsakan centers in the Davao Region where the Department of Agriculture (DA) is infusing five million pesos to fund the project. These centers will have cold storage and other facilities to handle food and crops from farmers.