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		<title>Manage Insects on Your Farm: A Guide to Ecological Strategies</title>
		<link>http://www.pinoyecofarmer.com/2012/02/06/manage-insects-farm-guide-ecological-strategies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edbcleofe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Manage Insects on Your Farm: A Guide to Ecological Strategies. Ecological pest management employs tactics that have existed in natural ecosystems for thousands of years. Since the beginning of agriculture — indeed, long before then — plants co-evolved with pests and with the natural enemies of those pests. As plants developed inherent protective mechanisms against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crop Rotation on Organic Farms : A Planning Manual</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crop Rotation on Organic Farms : A Planning Manual. Crop rotation is a critical feature of all organic cropping systems because it provides the principal mechanism for building healthy soils, a major way to control pests, and a variety of other benefits. Crop rotation means changing the type of crop grown on a particular piece [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building a Sustainable Business: A Guide to Developing a Business Plan for Farms and Rural Businesses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Building a Sustainable Business: A Guide to Developing a Business Plan for Farms and Rural Businesses. Regardless of whether you are a beginning entrepreneur who has recently inherited a business, an experienced farmer who is considering on-farm processing, or a retiring business owner who is looking to pass on the farm, business planning is important. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building Soils for Better Crops: Sustainable Soil Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Building Soils for Better Crops: Sustainable Soil Management. This book is meant to give the reader a holistic appreciation of the importance of soil health and to suggest ecologically sound practices that help to develop and maintain healthy soils. Building Soils for Better Crops has evolved over time. The first edition focused exclusively on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things to Consider When Buying a Farm Estate</title>
		<link>http://www.pinoyecofarmer.com/2011/03/23/buying-farm-estate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 05:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For hobbyists, serious farmers and retirees who need to shake off that sedentary lifestyle, what should be their guide in shopping for farm lots, now that these are sprouting like mushrooms all over the land?]]></description>
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		<title>Virgin Pili Oil in Bicol</title>
		<link>http://www.pinoyecofarmer.com/2011/03/22/virgin-pili-oil-bicol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An agrarian reform beneficiary in Daraga, Albay has found a “gold mine” in manually extracted virgin pili nut oil.]]></description>
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		<title>Empowering the Landless and Earning from Alternative Farming</title>
		<link>http://www.pinoyecofarmer.com/2011/03/09/empowering-landless-earning-alternative-farming/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pinoyecofarmer.com/2011/03/09/empowering-landless-earning-alternative-farming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 02:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edbcleofe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Empower the landless and earn money from alternative farming. This is the plan for a relatively remote barangay.]]></description>
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		<title>Why Most Filipino Farmers Are Poor</title>
		<link>http://www.pinoyecofarmer.com/2011/02/04/filipino-farmers-poor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pinoyecofarmer.com/2011/02/04/filipino-farmers-poor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 04:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edbcleofe</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pinoyecofarmer.com/?p=3023</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is clear indication that Filipino farmers are worse off relative to their counterparts in other Asian countries.]]></description>
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		<title>Rice Farming: Conventional to Organic</title>
		<link>http://www.pinoyecofarmer.com/2011/02/03/rice-farming-conventional-organic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pinoyecofarmer.com/2011/02/03/rice-farming-conventional-organic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edbcleofe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is economical to produce rice the organic way since the farmers themselves are taught to make their own fertilizers and plant protection inputs.]]></description>
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		<title>Harvesting Pili Resin for Commercial Use</title>
		<link>http://www.pinoyecofarmer.com/2011/02/03/harvesting-pili-resin-commercial/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pinoyecofarmer.com/2011/02/03/harvesting-pili-resin-commercial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edbcleofe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The bark of the pili yields a valuable resin – known as “Manila elemi” – which is used in the paint, pharmaceuticals, printing and perfume industries.]]></description>
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		<title>Trailblazing Pump Brings Relief to Farming Community</title>
		<link>http://www.pinoyecofarmer.com/2010/12/07/trailblazing-pump-brings-relief-farming-community/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pinoyecofarmer.com/2010/12/07/trailblazing-pump-brings-relief-farming-community/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 02:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edbcleofe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A trail-blazing water pump allows farmers in the Philippines to bring irrigation water up-slope from the Bingig River to their farms 10 meters above the source. ]]></description>
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		<title>Fish and Taro as Backyard Food Source</title>
		<link>http://www.pinoyecofarmer.com/2010/12/07/fish-taro-backyard-food-source/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pinoyecofarmer.com/2010/12/07/fish-taro-backyard-food-source/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 02:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edbcleofe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government is encouraging farmers to adopt the fish and taro culture which is an agro-aqua integrated farming technology found to be technically practical and profitable for household-backyard food production.]]></description>
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		<title>Former OFW Grows Vegetables in Sacks</title>
		<link>http://www.pinoyecofarmer.com/2010/12/07/ofw-grows-vegetables-sacks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edbcleofe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An enterprising balikbayan in Nueva Ecija grows vegetables in sacks instead of in plots in the ground. She is Thelma Villaroman Zara who used to work for an aviation company in the US.]]></description>
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		<title>Coconut as Health Food</title>
		<link>http://www.pinoyecofarmer.com/2010/12/01/coconut-health-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 01:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>edbcleofe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The bestsellers in Coconut House decidedly are the coconut ice cream and frozen novelties called Ice Buko. These are all made from whole coconut milk, coconut water and coconut sugar.]]></description>
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		<title>Coffee Growers and Traders in Bulacan</title>
		<link>http://www.pinoyecofarmer.com/2010/11/30/coffee-growers-traders-bulacan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Migrant farmer group in Bulacan managed to develop their own community in Barangay Talbak with coffee as their primary cash crop.]]></description>
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