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                    [Title] => Gibberellic acid helps make garlic bulb bigger
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Apply gibberellic acid (GA3), a hormone that promotes plant growth and development.


Take this advice from Wilhelmina Castañeda, a researcher of the Department of Agriculture-Regional Field Unit 1 (RFU)-Regional Outreach Station 2 (ROS) based at the Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU) complex in Batac, Ilocos Norte.


Castañeda said the application of gibberellic acid increases the yield of garlic by 56 percent, resulting in a 66-percent rise in net income.


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                    [Title] => Ilocano farmer earns good money in cotton farming
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Not Rosendo Daradar, a progressive farmer from Barangay Capacuan, Batac, Ilocos Norte.


For the pst eight years now, much of Daradar’s income came from cotton, a cash crop long grown in Ilocandia but has not been widely planted.


But farmers like Daradar have kept the moribund industry alive.


And he has his renovated house and additional farmlands bought to show everyone that it pays to plant cotton in the Ilocos region.


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                    [Title] => Bamboo tile maker devised
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Called kawayan tile maker (KTM), the machine was designed for village operation by Jose Zafaralla, an engineer, and Dr. Stanley Malab of the Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU) in Batac, Ilocos Norte.


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For the pst eight years now, much of Daradar’s income came from cotton, a cash crop long grown in Ilocandia but has not been widely planted.


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abtest

A good binder for charcoal briquettes

December 27, 2009 - 12:00am

The effluent or wastewater from the production of chic acorn (fried corn kernels) is a good binder for rice hull and bamboo shavings in making charcoal briquette.

Agriculture

Degraded mangrove ecosystem in La Union being rehabilitated

By Rudy A. Fernandez | January 25, 2009 - 12:00am

SAN FERNANDO, La Union – A program to rehabilitate the degraded mangrove ecosystem in La Union is on.

Nation

Gov’t, private firms push R&D commercialization

By Rudy A. Fernandez | October 9, 2005 - 12:00am

LOS BAÑOS, Laguna – Five government research and development (R&D) agencies and a private entity have agreed to jointly implement a program on the commercialization and utilization of R&D results. The...

Agriculture

Gov’t, private firms push R&D commercialization

By Rudy A. Fernandez | October 9, 2005 - 12:00am

LOS BAÑOS, Laguna – Five government research and development (R&D) agencies and a private entity have agreed to jointly implement a program on the commercialization and utilization of R&D results. The...

Agriculture

Gibberellic acid helps make garlic bulb bigger

May 29, 2005 - 12:00am

Want to produce garlic with bigger bulbs? Apply gibberellic acid (GA3), a hormone that promotes plant growth and development. Take this advice from Wilhelmina Castañeda, a researcher of the Department of...

Agriculture

Ilocano farmer earns good money in cotton farming

July 4, 2004 - 12:00am

Who says cotton farming is not profitable? Not Rosendo Daradar, a progressive farmer from Barangay Capacuan, Batac, Ilocos Norte. For the pst eight years now, much of Daradar’s income came from cotton, a cash...

Real Estate

Bamboo tile maker devised

February 2, 2003 - 12:00am

There’s now a machine that can process bamboo into solid flat bamboo tiles for house construction, furniture, and handicraft purposes. Called kawayan tile maker (KTM), the machine was designed for village operation...

Agriculture