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Hydrohonics is profitable: even a small space can produce good income

Hydroponics Is Profitable: Even A Small Space Can Produce Good Income

IN AGRIBUSINESS, you don’t always need hectares upon hectares of growing area to make good income. Some people can make a decent profit even from a small area. And they don’t even have to own the land because they can just rent it. Just like Julius Carl Gerona, who grow lettuce and kale the hydroponics way in a vacant subdivision lot in Antipolo City that he rents for R300 a month.

3 mins

Millennial-Led Hydroponic Farm Grows Vegetables Right In The Middle Of New Manila

BEHIND A NONDESCRIPT GATE in the middle of bustling New Manila is a lot that contains a bunch of container vans, some stacked on top of each other. One of these vans houses a hydroponic farm setup where arugula, basil, and kale grow at a constant 18°C every day of the year while the rest wait to be converted to similar indoor farms.

7 mins

Introducing Tiffany, The Yellow-Fleshed Watermelon

MOST OF US are familiar with the popular watermelon with red and yellow flesh. Plenty of farmers nowadays combine planting both red and yellow fleshed watermelons, since they are two of the consumer’s favorites. But did you know that each color contains a slight difference in nutrients?

3 mins

Oldest Thai Seed Company Is Newest Player In The PH

A NEW COMPANY that will distribute seeds of vegetables and other high-value crops was officially launched at the company’s head office in Tarlac City and at the Marriott Hotel in Clark Pampanga on June 10, 2019.

2 mins

A Floating Tilapia Hatchery In Sampaloc Lake

A FISH HATCHERY is a facility where the breeding of mature fish (male and female) and the rearing (nursery) of the young (fry and fingerlings) are done. In most countries, including the Philippines, the hatcheries for the Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus), the second most important farmed fish in the world, are done in land-based ponds and tanks. The commercial breeding and nursery of tilapia in a lake-based floating hatchery were probably first done in the Philippines in Lake Bunot (one of the seven lakes of San Pablo City in Laguna) by Nony Guia in the 1970s for the Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus).

2 mins

Former Police Officer Is Now A Square Foot Garden Advocate

A LOT OF PEOPLE discover agriculture after retirement. They find that tending to plants keeps them active, and turning what usually starts as a hobby into a business keeps their minds sharp as well.

3 mins

Urban Garden In Pampanga Grows Fresh Herbs For The Culinary Scene

IN THE CULINARY INDUSTRY, it is important to use fresh ingredients to make sure that dishes are both appealing and healthy.

2 mins

9 Tips For Keeping An Urban Garden Well-Watered Despite El Niño

SOMEONE who becomes an urban gardener will inevitably adopt sustainable practices, if it weren’t to those practices that drew them to gardening to begin with. In my case, I first wanted to grow a few herbs, until I wanted to grow my own food by planting leafy vegetables like pechay and lettuce, and fruiting vegetables like gourd, squash, tomato, and pepper.

5 mins

Couple's Chili Sauce Business Helped Their Davao Oriental Community Rise Above Adversity

THE ABILITY of the Filipinos to rise up after every adversity has been proven time and again. That despite major calamities, almost everyone could still manage to offer a warm smile and see the goodness in everything. And the couple behind Ayana’s Siling Kinamayo, together with the hundreds of families in the Mindanao region, particularly in Davao Oriental, could very well epitomize this trait.

6 mins

Forest Wood Garden: Farm Tourism Destination With A Culinary Twist

THE LUSH Forest Wood Garden at the foot of Mount San Cristobal, a dormant volcano rising 4,820 feet beside the mystical Mount Banahaw, at the southern fringes of San Pablo City in Laguna blossomed from a simple garden of colorful ornamental plants in mid2000 into a full working farm today.

6 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.