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It is as old as time, a part of God’s creation as a natural soil binder. But Vetiver grass has largely been ignored, and has just started to be appreciated in the last few years.

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In life, it happens quite often that we don’t know what we have been missing until it arrives and we don’t realize the value of what has arrived until it is missing.

[DatePublished] => 2009-10-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135405 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1231640 [AuthorName] => Christine S. Dayrit [SectionName] => Travel and Tourism [SectionUrl] => travel-and-tourism [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 22320 [Title] => Bamboo, vetiver effective in riverbank rehab – study [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2007-10-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 354851 [Title] => A ‘miracle grass’ [Summary] => Many farmers now call it "miracle grass."

And they have reason to append this to vetiver, a grass species that has been found to control soil erosion and rehabilitate unproductive uplands.

Confirming this is the Farm and Resources Management Institute (FARMI) of the Leyte State University (LSU) in Baybay, Leyte.

LSU-FARMI researchers led by Dr. Edwin Balbarino tested various plants (including grasses) as contour hedgerows in barren and less productive upland farmers’ fields in the Leyte towns of Baybay, Hindang and Matalom.
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It is as old as time, a part of God’s creation as a natural soil binder. But Vetiver grass has largely been ignored, and has just started to be appreciated in the last few years.

[DatePublished] => 2009-11-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Starweek Magazine [SectionUrl] => starweek-magazine [URL] => http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/7900/wikcoverthumb.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 512615 [Title] => Hacienda San Benito: Green retreat [Summary] =>

In life, it happens quite often that we don’t know what we have been missing until it arrives and we don’t realize the value of what has arrived until it is missing.

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And they have reason to append this to vetiver, a grass species that has been found to control soil erosion and rehabilitate unproductive uplands.

Confirming this is the Farm and Resources Management Institute (FARMI) of the Leyte State University (LSU) in Baybay, Leyte.

LSU-FARMI researchers led by Dr. Edwin Balbarino tested various plants (including grasses) as contour hedgerows in barren and less productive upland farmers’ fields in the Leyte towns of Baybay, Hindang and Matalom.
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