agriculture + buisiness
“Unlike most vegetables that carry a high source of one vitamin or another, carrots are concentrated with Vitamin A, beta carotene and fiber, which work together to solve a number of maladies.
agriculture + buisiness
“Unlike most vegetables that carry a high source of one vitamin or another, carrots are concentrated with Vitamin A, beta carotene and fiber, which work together to solve a number of maladies.
It’s not only the pandemic caused by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) that the Philippines is facing; there’s also African swine fever (ASF) which “has wiped out over a third of the country’s pig stock,” according to a report released by SciDev.Net.
Rubber farmers who want to get rid of their trees that are no longer productive or plant another crop (like coffee, cacao, banana, or coconut) can turn the discarded trees into something valuable.
Indeed, there is a sure market for mangoes, according to the Agribusiness and Marketing Assistance Division (AMAD) in Davao Region.
In the Philippines, particularly in the rural areas, bamboo abounds. Mostly, bamboos are found along river banks.
Among tropical fruits in Asia, mangosteen is considered the queen (durian is touted as the king). If the fruit were a movie personality, mangosteen would be Audrey Hepburn.
Many fruits grown in the Philippines are getting the thumbs up from nutritional researchers. Take the case of mango (scientific name: Mangifera indica), one of the country’s most celebrated fruits.
Peppers are native to Mexico, Central America, and northern South America. Pepper seeds were later carried to Spain in 1493 and from there spread to other European, African, and Asian countries.
“The world has always been like this: one man feasts on the jackfruit and the other gets stuck in the sap,” says a familiar saying. Another one goes like this, “Whoever eats the jackfruit, will be touched by the sap.”
Sea cucumbers – named because they looked like the vegetable crop cucumbers – are among the most commercially-exploited aquatic species in the country for their reported medical, pharmaceutical, gastronomical and commercial use.
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