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Practical Tips On How To Grow Culinary Herbs

IS GROWING CULINARY HERBS relatively easy? Is it easy? For me it is not easy, but since I love cooking, I chose to grow culinary herbs in my garden. A culinary herb is a plant without a woody stem that dies back at the end of each growing season. Herbs were once considered a gift of the gods. Today, herbs are popular in many home gardens where the leaves are used for flavoring or the entire part.

3 mins

Planting Rice Now More Fun, More Profitable

“PLANTING RICE is never fun…Bending over till the set of sun”. That’s the opening lyric of the old planting rice song. Today, it is a different tune altogether, according to progressive smallholder farmers we interviewed during the “Piyestang Syngenta,” an event in Cabanatuan City attended by more than 150 men and women farmers on July 11, 2018. The new tune could as well be “Planting rice is now more fun and more profitable too, with the new technologies.”

2 mins

Rediscovering Our Minor Forest Products

WHEN WE TALK about forests, it is most certain that timber and wood products would come into our minds.

3 mins

Why White-Collar Job People Go Into Farming

IN OUR LONG YEARS of writing about agriculture, we have met a lot of people–ordinary farmers as well as the white-collar workers–who went into some kind of farming. Why did they go into farming? Here are just five reasons (surely, there are many more).

2 mins

A Lot Of People Are Interested In Hydroponics

IT IS AMAZING how farming and gardening enthusiasts are braving inclement weather just to attend the lecture on hydroponics. On July 21, 2018, it was raining very hard and many streets were under water. Yet, more than 150 enthusiasts braved the heavy rains and flooded streets to attend the lecture of Engr. Wilson Testa on growing vegetables the hydroponics way.

1 min

Kamico, One Of The Biggest Exhibitors In Agrilink 2018

SOUTH KOREA MANUFACTURERS will display their machinery in the upcoming Agrilink 2018 to be held on October 4 to 6 at the World Trade Center in Pasay City. KAMICO, one of the biggest exhibitors in the event, is being represented in the country by FIT Corea Trading Philippines, Inc.

5 mins

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Agriculture Magazine Description:

Agriculture Magazine is the most widely circulated magazine of its kind in the country. Every month, it regularly features winning strategies of successful agri-people in various areas of farming, including sustainable technologies in the production of crops, livestock and poultry and fisheries. It also covers food processing, creative marketing, plant and animal nutrition, farm management, research results and many others.