Goat farming is good money
Tired of real estate or money market investments that turn out to be duds? Despair not! Do what we have been telling you forever: invest in agriculture. for starters, how about goats? Looking for a farming venture that is not only environment friendly but profitable as well? PCARRD suggests raising goats Goats are very popular […]
BPRE holds Visayas-wide technical symposium on tramline projects
Here’s a news bit we gathered from the Philippines’ Bureau of Postharvest Research and Extension. Might be useful for our Philippine based readers. BPRE also has lots of interesting training courses you might wanna check out. The Bureau of Postharvest Research and Extension conducted a Visayas-wide technical symposium on agricultural tramline projects on August 27-28, […]
Farms on the rooftops
Here’s an interesting bit we stumbled upon on MSNBC about urban farming in New York City, USA. As the worldwide trend towards urbanization continues to roll on, the prospects of urban farming becomes more and more evident, if not, a practical necessity. I like this quote from the rooftop farmer “Food comes from not only […]
Making a mud stove
Here’s some FarmFriday handy tips we got from CELAC. Mrs Muwanga Jesca – Vice Chairlady of CELAC Masaka District Farmers Network shares her technique for making a long lasting and fuel efficient mud stove… I want to share with you how to make a cooking stove out of mud just like the one I made […]
How to milk a cow properly
FarmFriday shares this guidelines from CELAC on Milk Hygiene. click the pix
Want some cow poop for your house?
Okay, i kid you not, now you can actually construct your house using cow dung bricks! FarmFriday brings this cool technology developed by the cool guys and gals of EcoFaeBrick, an Indonesian organization set up to tackle the problem of excessive waste in farming areas.
PhilRice debuts precision seeder
We like farm equipments especially local inventions so for FarmFriday we showcase this updated version of the seeder produced by PhilRice. If you would like to know more or are interested in buying this machine please contact 0920-911-1398. Even with low-cost drum and precision seeders around capable of seeding rice seeds in rows at 20 […]
Farmland.org documents global landgrabbing
HungerWednesday shares this interesting website we stumbled upon while browsing Grain. Visit http://farmlandgrab.org, website maintained by Grain, “that offers the most comprehensive information tool on the global land grab for outsourced food production” Grain says the website “provides an open, up-to-date and easy to search library of over 800 articles, interviews and reports on farm […]
Here comes the vertical farms
FarmFriday found this interesting technology while browsing Celsias. So we followed the links and then ultimately came to Cleantech where they’re promoting this technology. High oil prices, the diversion of 30 percent of the U.S. corn crop for ethanol, and strong demand from China and India are causing food shortages in vulnerable countries around the […]
How China became world's third largest food aid donor by promoting family farms
HungerWednesday again and we highlight this interesting article from Celias about how “China ended its dependence on food aid, but almost overnight.. became the world’s third largest food aid donor.” And China got to this by dismantling collective farms and replaced them with family farms. Wow! Another convincing proof that family farming is the way […]
