UPDATE ON RUBBER FARMING — Dr. Pablito P. Pamplona has reported in the December issue of Agriculture Magazine that new rubber clones show high yield potential and early production. For instance, trees of PB 350 and RRIM 2025 reached tapping size at four years, much earlier than RRIM 600 and PB 260 which need 5.5 years to attain tapping size. Additionally, Dr. Pamplona cites intercropping of cash crops during the first three years of the plantation as a source of income for the farmers while waiting for the trees to be ready for tapping. The crops may include peanut in the first year, corn in the second year and lakatan or latundan banana in the third year. Photo shows peanuts intercropped with one-year-old rubber trees.
Did you know that crocodile lechon is now available in the Philippines?
Buy the December 2013 issue of Agriculture Magazine and read about Coral Agri-Venture Farm, Inc. (CAVFI) that has 15,000 crocodiles in its farm in Teresa, Rizal. The story is written by our regular contributor, Pete Samonte.
While the main product of the company is crocodile skin which it exports abroad, CAFVI is now also focusing on developing gourmet food products, including crocodile lechon.
The other crocodile meat products are Dundee hotdog, burger patties, sisig, Bicol express, crispy pata, tocino, tapa and other preparations.
ORGANIC FERTILIZER MANUFACTURER – Another inspiring story you will read is about Alfredo Gonzales of Concepcion, Tarlac, who plants sugarcane on 300 hectares.
Thanks to the excessively high cost of urea a few years ago, Gonzales was forced to turn to making organic fertilizer for his own use as well as for other planters. Now, he manufactures no less than 1,000 sacks of organic fertilizer a day using as raw material sugar milling wastes, poultry and hog manure which he enriches with his own beneficial microorganisms.
His operation is highly mechanized so that the resulting products are very uniform in quality. The feature story is also written by Pete Samonte.
PAPAYA KING – Another inspiring story is that of Carmelo ‘Milo’ Ramos of Brgy. Soledad in San Pablo City. Milo was a former OFW who served for about 10 years in a rescue ship that sailed around the world tasked with rescuing vessels in distress.
He gave up his well-paying job as a seaman to become a farmer in his native barangay because he could not forget what an old lady fortune teller told him when he was a small boy. The fortune teller told him that his fortune was in the farm and not at sea.
When he went back to his barrio, he immediately planted rambutan in the family farm which he intercropped with Sinta papaya. The papaya was very profitable so that since 1999 he has always planted papaya in the family farm as well as in rented land.
Today he has 18,000 papaya trees planted in three locations. His biggest plantation is located near where he lives, planted to 12,000 Sinta, Red Lady and Red Royale varieties. Every week, he harvests an average of 8 tons from his biggest plantation most of which are sold to a big trader at P15 per kilo.
Now you see, sometimes fortune tellers are also right. Right in the case of Carmelo Ramos.
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