In the hills of Malaybalay, Bukidnon, floods and soil erosion are real threats to farms, homes, and communities. But one woman has been quietly building a natural solution — armed not with machines, but with Philippine Giant Bamboo (Dendrocalamus asper). Ma’am Myrna Decipulo, retired government worker and locally known as the Mother of the Giant…
Three years after our small company, the Southseas Agri-Aqua Ventures Inc. (SAAVI), introduced Sorghum farming in Central Mindanao, we are now all set to contribute to the development of the Cattle and Small Ruminants Industry with the Sorghum Silage. This was not an easy journey for us because convincing farmers to plant Sorghum and finding…
Leaders of the town of La Libertad, Zamboanga del Norte, a landlocked municipality with a population of just about 8,000 and a poverty incidence of 46% arrived in Kidapawan City last night with just one purpose – to meet me. Mayor Ricky R. Cuenca and Former Vice Mayor Dan Botalid, along with a 21-man delegation…
What I thought earlier to be just a friendly visit by a son of Maguindanao del Sur Governor Datu Ali Midtimbang may yet turn out to be the start of the transformation of this former troubled province into a major food production area. Yesterday, Datu Anggal Mayor Nathaniel Midtimbang, former Vice Governor during the previous…
Popular Chef and Japanese Restaurant owner Alex Sebastian said Mindanao farmers should breed and produce more local Wagyu because the meat quality is comparable to those imported from Japan and Australia. Yesterday, Alex, who owns three branches of Japanese Restaurant Robata, showed me his stocks of imported Wagyu and Angus beef choice cuts priced between…
With the help of Gothong Southern Shipping, Cattle, Dairy and Goat farmers in Cebu and provinces in Luzon could now buy Sorghum Silage in bales which we produce in Polomolok, South Cotabato. This was arranged today during the visit to my farm of Gothong Shipping executives Albert Doceo, chief commercial officer, and Mark de Dios,…
As the market price of Beef soars all over the world, especially in the United States, the Philippine Government must now come up with a viable Cattle Production Program. “Beef and veal prices are predicted to increase 9.9% in 2025, with a prediction interval of 7.2 to 12.9% because of an imbalance between demand and…
One week after we started to commercially sell the Baled Sorghum Silage which our small company, the Southseas Agri-Aqua Ventures Inc. (SAAVI), is producing, we are getting very positive and encouraging feedback from Cattle and Goat farmers who have tried it. A group of Dairy Goat Farmers from Magsaysay, Davao Del Sur, who purchased initially…
The herd of Wagyu Cattle which we acquired from the Alzona Farms in October last year is doing well even in the hot climate of Barangay Glamang, Polomolok, South Cotabato where temperature could be as high as as 40°C. In just a year, the cows have already produced at least 10 calves while the others…
In the deeply divided Philippine Politics where groups are identified by their political loyalties as Dilawans (now Pinklawans), DDS or Loyalists, it is almost unthinkable for a prominent personality to be able to move on from his association with a previous administration and occupy a sensitive role in the next. But Vivencio “Vince” Dizon, the…
