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• 85 CamSur farmers complete training on organic farming

  April 29, 2009 MANILA, Philippines - Eighty-five farmers completed the season-long training on organic farming in Baao, Camarines Sur, boosting government and non-government organizations’ (NGO) initiatives to promote sustainable agriculture practices i...

• Restoring earth, restoring health

  April 25, 2009 MANILA, Philippines – “Farmers do not produce the food of life. Farmers merely assist nature. The real farmer is the soil,” says Masanobu Fukuoka, a Ramon Magsaysay awardee for natural organic agriculture (NOA). He says the objective ...

• Stakeholders want unified organic farming bill passed

  April 24, 2009 Players in the organic farming industry are seeking to fast track the passage of a unified bill pending in the legislature to strengthen the sector, which is programmed by the Department of Agriculture (DA) to cover 10 percent of all rice f...

• 1,226 farmers benefit from demo farms and training

  April 10, 2009 Five hundred and eight farmers have been trained in the production of non-chemical based fertilizers while another 718 benefited from the establishment of techno-demo organic farms under the organic farming program initiated by the Departme...

• 100 farmers complete organic farming training

  April 20, 2009 DINALUPIHAN, Bataan: A former secretary and his undersecretary at the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) and a national farmer-leader urged all agencies of government involved in agriculture to join hands in promoting organic farming durin...

• Learning organic farming through radio

  April 14, 2009 MANILA, Philippines--With the idea of keeping it both informative and entertaining, a radio drama has been launched to teach the country’s farming communities about organic farming.With radio as being the most accessible medium for inform...

• Farmers don’t see bumper crop of palay in first sem

  April 11, 2009 - The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) is not expecting a bumper crop of palay for the first semester as a result of the reduction in the use of petrochemical-based fertilizer and the failure to rehabilitate irrigation systems nationw...

• Organic farming will make rice cheaper, says group

  April 8, 2009 - The price of rice may eventually go down, with farmers benefiting from lower production costs as they start to produce their own organic fertilizer, Go Organic! Philippines said. While organically-produced agricultural products and byprodu...

• Newly organized group bats for organic agriculture

  April 08, 2009MANILA, Philippines - Various groups have banded together to form a new organization called One Organic Movement that will work for the development of organic agriculture in the Philippines. Led by the Philippine Development Assistance Pro...

• Groups unite to push for organic agri

  April 7, 2009 The leading proponents of the organic-product sector have banded together for the first time to launch the One Organic Movement as part of their thrust to push for the further development of organic agriculture in the Philippines. Comprising...

• Colored rice promoted

  March 20, 2009 - MANILA, Philippines - Organic farming advocates are promoting the massive planting of colored rice which is said to be rich in phytochemicals that fight cancer.The aromatic, cancer-fighting black rice known as “Forbidden Rice” is foun...

• Philippines ready to export organic products

  March 20, 2009 - MANILA, Philippines — A program to convert 400,000 hectares of traditional rice lands into organic farms will produce enough organic rice to meet domestic and international demand, anofficial of non-profit group La Liga Policy Institute...