📸 Manny Piñol facebook page Shortly after 11 p.m. Tuesday, March 11, former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, accompanied by his long-time friend and former Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea, was whisked off from our country to be brought to The Hague, Netherlands to face the International Criminal Court. It was a sad day for those who…
North Cotabato is a land of ironies: It is a major producer of rice but the farmer’s palay is bought at P15 per kilo while the market price of rice, often imported, is P50 to P60/kilo. This is a perfect example of daylight robbery because the rule of thumb is price of palay multiplied by…
In my genuine desire to provide the Indigenous People and their children a better life, I have designed the Cotabato Bamboo Farming Program in their vast Ancestral Domains which I hope to implement if by God’s grace, I will be back as Governor of my province. The program aims to establish Giant Bamboo Production in…
-For a country which literally is submerged in floodwater during the typhoon season, the Philippines is facing a major crisis which could impact on the lives of the next generation of Filipinos – the lack of water. Sadder than this impending disaster is the fact that nobody seems to be concerned about it and there…
Photo Courtesy: Manny Piñol facebook page Sorghum and Upland Rice Farming will start this month in six Pilot Areas of the vast Tribal Ancestral Domains of North Cotabato. An initial area of 200 hectares will be planted to Sorghum with a Buy-Back Agreement with the Southseas Agri-Aqua Ventures, Inc., a small company which Sen. Ping…
The country’s biggest Sheep and Goat Genetics Nucleus Farm is now nearing completion in North Cotabato. When fully operational this year, it will be the breeding center of two outstanding lines of Goat and Sheep whose offsprings will later be distributed to the different regions of the country. The project is a partnership between the…
The commercial production through grow-out culture of “Ulang,” the Giant Freshwater Prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) in the Liguasan Marsh could earn local farmers as much as P400,000 per hectare per year, according to a study conducted by the Southeast Asia Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC). The result of the study came almost five months since I invited…
“Don’t Mislead The President; Lower Rice Tariff Wrong Move!” Dear Sec. Arsing, While I did not have the opportunity to work with you when I was Secretary of Agriculture, several co-workers in the Department of Agriculture who knew you gave me the impression that you are a hardworking and sensible government worker. Your recent move,…
In an unexpected development, Youth Leaders of Matalam town in my home province, asked my brother, Socrates, if they could visit my farm. Yesterday, I led a dozen Youth Leaders in a tour of my farm in Paco, Kidapawan City showing them the Soybeans trial plots, free-range chicken yards, upgrading of native goats and the…
Many followers of my page had repeatedly asked me what the genetic composition of “Manok Pinoy” is. I have always shared the information that “Manok Pinoy,” a free-range chicken strain which I first developed in 2010, is actually a combination of three breeds, two of which are Heritage chicken while the dominant line is Oriental….
