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13/01/2025

Day 13 of 365 - HAPPY FIESTA KA-BARANGAY! Pool Party ba ang hanap? GORA na sa YDR!

15/03/2023

Agriculture and entrepreneurship advocate. Award-winning broadcast journalist. Founder of Agripreneur

03/04/2022

I was holding a herbal plant when I came across friendly neighbors laughing at me. A women said, "it's just a common shrub in us what you're holding". Earlier when I asked my lola for the plant, I boast we also have a bitter plant herb called "san piedro" in our yard which I just cleared off the ground though I know its significance to a health cure, its just that its abundance just a mess in my garden. Then I remember a former indian colleague "Raju" back in the Mactan Cebu airport, the only heart rob man at work at his built and women are enticed with his presence, but his friends will just tell us, "he's just a common ordinary guy in India". The lesson here was, no matter how insignificant we feel about ourselves because of whether sociocultural, financial or belief reasons, know that there is always someone or somewhere where your value is the most priceless, so don't just loose hope and quit, just be patience and somehow take a leap if you hadn't done one yet while trust the process.👍😼

By the way, this local known as Pansit-pansitan, a good tea substitute for prostate issues.

11/12/2021

First day, Turkey (Pabo) chicks cage transfer.

24/02/2021

Home made sugar.

22/02/2021

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10/02/2021

Internship to Taiwan offer to young farmers in Bicol Region.

ATI Bicol is looking for interested applicants for the Filipino Young Farmers Internship Program in Taiwan.

Basic Qualifications

1. Young Filipino farmer who is an out of school youth (OSY);
2. Male or Female, Single, 18-36 years old at the time of application;
3. Son/daughter of cooperators of a Learning Site for Agriculture, School for Practical Agriculture, Extension Service Provide, or Farm School;
4. Has existing farm land regardless of land size and status of ownership;
5. Has no live-in partner and/or child;
6. Senior high school graduate or college undergraduate or technical/vocational graduate;
7. Not presently employed in any job at the time of application;
8. Not related to any ATI employee by affinity or consanguinity;
9. Must have at least one (1) year accumulated farming experience at the time of application;
10. Has no overdue obligations from the ATI at the time of application;
11. Of good community standing;
12. A good communicator and can speak and understand English;
13. Has no physical deformities;
14. Willing to learn Mandarin and new technologies;
15. With valid Philippine passport for 2-5 years;
16. Not a recipient of ATI’s other International Exchange Programs;
17. Had no previous Internship travel to other countries; and
18. Passed the following medical examinations in DOH-accredited diagnostic clinics/hospitals/laboratories: dental, chest X-ray (for Tuberculosis), stool examination (for parasites), serological test (for Syphilis), proof of positive measles and rubella antibody, test for Hansen’s Disease, skin examination, tests for Hepatitis B and HIV/AIDS, ECG exam, drug and neuro-psychological tests.

Documentary Requirements for Filipino Young Farmers Internship Program in Taiwan | Download it here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1W6O_KPcYtV8SxwHir5OlHgqHQqICpYy3?usp=sharing

Applications shall be submitted by the applicant to the City/Municipal Agriculture Office nearest to him/her. The pre-qualifiers (validated and evaluated by the C/MAO) shall be endorsed by the Provincial Agriculture Office and submitted to ATI Bicol on or before February 25, 2021. The top five (5) applicants shall be endorsed to the ATI Central Office in Quezon City.

07/02/2021

Local Filipino veggies sown and harvested in France . 👍

By Vina Medenilla Leaving a place that you call home can be difficult, but this doesn’t mean you’ll never find one in a different environment. Annalyn Opada-Rampe, 40, is a Filipina gardener who found a home in

05/02/2021

Enriching soil facts.

Green manure is a term used for crops that are plowed into the soil or simply left on the ground to improve soil quality.

Katuray has been used effectively as green manure to rehabilitate depleted agricultural lands. It is native to the Philippines and commonly seen growing on the dikes between rice paddies, along roadsides, and in backyard vegetable gardens. So if you have katuray in your backyard, use it as green manure.

21/01/2021

06/01/2021

Through photosynthesis, plants absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. They use water and sunlight to turn carbon into leaves, stems, seeds and roots which it absorbs, making the air fit for us to breath.

Giving us another reason to keep.

-Soil Fact Sharing

Source: UPL

26/12/2020

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Sad Day for Phil. Agriculture
Zacarias Sarian Passes Away

One of the most enduring and iconic figures in Philippine Agriculture who was considered by all Agriculture Journalists as their Father and Dean, Zacarias B. Sarian, passed away yesterday at age 83.

As a journalist, I never really had the opportunity of working closely with Mang Zac because he joined the Manila Bulletin just a year before I decided to resign from Tempo, which is also owned by the Bulletin Publishing Corp.

But Zac was a giant among the Agriculture figures.

Through his writings, he inspired many to try their hands in Agriculture and he made farming seem so easy with his very clear how-to-do articles.

Mang Zac simply loved farming and he never dipped his finger into the political side of Agriculture.

In fact, I have never read an article he wrote which was critical of the government's agriculture programs or of any agriculture official.

He simply wrote about plants and farming.

As a farmer myself who read a lot of Mang Zac's articles, his passing creates a void.

Of course, there are young agriculture journalists now but I don't think I would see in my lifetime somebody as passionate about farming as Mang Zac.

I offer my deepest condolences to the family of Dean Zacarias Balong Sarian.

(Photo of Zac Sarian was downloaded from his page.)