30 tillers. This is the average tiller count of our Sampidao- a native, fragrant, soft rice variety. This is already an indicator of more yield, however, not all of it are productive tillers because of factor such as pest infestation. In Kanipaan, most of farmers did direct planting this cropping because of limited budget… [Read more…]
January 18, 2012
When there are pests, we always think, “KILL THEM!!!”. But this cropping, “Tyangaw” or Rice bugs are more resilient. Recently, the rice field next to us, harvested ahead of us because his was direct planted and it early matured. His bugs transferred to our ripe plants. To save our crop we sprayed, anti bug chemicals… [Read more…]
January 18, 2012
Last month was the peak of harvest for many farmers in Kanipaan, Palimbang including our 5.5 hectares land in RCF. We experienced delay in harvesting and threshing because there is shortage of harvesters. One time, we tried to hire harvesters from neighboring villages but we spent an extra cost for fetching them, meals, accommodation. After… [Read more…]
December 13, 2011
This cropping, the RCF experimented more on native rice variety, date of transplanting and direct planting by dropping seeds instead of broadcasting. So far, the highest number of tillers we have is 35 of the hybrid M3 variety. But the fact that the native Texas variety can reach up to 60 tillers, the number is… [Read more…]
December 12, 2011
Rushing from her class every noon time, Christy arrives at Pasta Donita wearing a newly bought long palda and white blouse uniform. On her heels is a pair of black leather wedge which she recently bought from her wage. She changes her clothes and puts on her working clothes and does an intertwined crew and… [Read more…]
November 8, 2011
Missing hills in the front part.
October 19, 2011
The recent motorized weeder design must be fine tuned to adapt to farmer’s needs. Here are some suggestions to further improve its output. 1. Change the blade. Due to dysfunctional motorized weeders lately, we used more manual weeders. We observed that the blade of the manual is more extensive in removing the weeds than the… [Read more…]
August 18, 2011
To be strict One of the hardest part in managing is to correct a subordinate who is older and more experienced in than you. Last cropping ( January- July) there were many faults like we knew some planters don’t do the correct way of planting. We had the dilemma to correct them as the planters… [Read more…]
July 11, 2011
Land preparation is done right, seeds are sown in time, transplanting is wrong. Then, all the right doesn’t make an impact at all. This is just one of the challenges that the Rice Contract Farm (RCF) is facing where most unwanted incidents are caused by failure of workers to do things right and lack of… [Read more…]
July 1, 2011
Biao- IP Manobo community located 18 kilometers up from San Roque Palimbang, up scales its corn farming. From prevalent hunger back in 2005 to surpluses this year, the tribal chieftain Duma says his community produces up to 10, 000 kilos of corn already these past months. They have four cropping of corn in a year,… [Read more…]
January 18, 2012
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