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Crop Guides for Filipino Farmers

How to plant, feed and harvest the crops Filipino farms live on, from palay and mais to vegetables, coconut and banana. Written for the field, in English and Tagalog.

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Palay heads turning golden and bending over in a rice field

Palay Palay in English: Meaning, Parts, Growth Stages and How It Becomes Rice

Palay is rice that still wears its husk. It is the grain you harvest, dry and sell before any mill touches it. This guide explains what palay means in English and names t...

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An ear of white corn with the husk pulled back to show rows of corn kernels and the silk at the tip

Mais Corn Kernel and Corn Husk: Parts of the Corn Plant, Kinds, Uses and Price

A corn kernel is both the seed and the grain of the corn plant. Farmers plant it, feed mills buy it and families cook it as mais. This guide explains the parts of the cor...

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Palay heads filling out in a green rice field

Palay Rice Varieties in the Philippines: Inbreds, Hybrids and Special Rice

The NSIC has approved a long list of rice varieties in the Philippines, but most farms plant only a handful. This guide compares the popular NSIC inbreds, the main hybrid...

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Pagtatanim ng palay: isang magsasakang may hawak na cellphone sa binahang bukid, kung saan naglilipat ng punla ang ibang manggagawa

Palay Pagtatanim ng Palay: Gabay Mula Punla Hanggang Pag Aani

Ang pagtatanim ng palay ay hindi lang pagbaon ng punla sa putik. Sunod sunod na desisyon ito mula sa binhi hanggang sa pag aani, at bawat mali ay bawas sa ani. Heto ang b...

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Even rows of young corn plants grown from corn seeds in a freshly weeded field

Mais Corn Seeds: How to Choose, Plant and Grow an Even Stand

The corn seeds you plant limit how well the crop can do, whatever you spend on fertilizer later. This guide covers the kinds of seed sold in the Philippines. It shows how...

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Vegetable terraces and plastic tunnels on the slopes of Mankayan, Benguet, where many vegetables in the Philippines are grown

Vegetables Vegetables in the Philippines: What to Grow, When, and How to Feed Them

Vegetables in the Philippines come from two very different farms. In the lowlands it is the gulayan of ampalaya, sitaw, talong, okra, kalabasa, pechay, kangkong and tomat...

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Batang punla ng mangga na tumutubo sa tuyong lupa, ang simula ng pagtatanim ng puno

Fruit and tree crops Pagtatanim ng Puno: Paano Magtanim ng Punong Prutas at Punong Kahoy

Ang pagtatanim ng puno ay puhunang ilang taon bago magbalik, kaya dapat tama ang simula. Mangga man, niyog, durian, mangosteen o punong kahoy para sa lilim, halos pareho...

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A white plate of cooked mais rice, the crumbly cooked white corn grits

Mais Mais Rice: What Corn Rice Is, Its Benefits and How It Is Made

Mais rice, also called corn rice or corn grits, is white corn milled into small grits and cooked like rice. It is a daily staple in many corn growing towns, and some fami...

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Tall coconut palms over a grassy field in Sipocot, Camarines Sur, the kind of farm that needs the right fertilizer for coconut tree growth

Fruit and tree crops Fertilizer for Coconut Tree: Rates by Age for Salt, Ammonium Sulfate and Potash

The fertilizer for coconut tree farms in the Philippines that costs least is common salt. Many inland coconut areas are short of chlorine. So the usual advice centers on...

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Maisan sa gilid ng bundok sa Pilar, Capiz na tuyo na ang mga dahon at malapit nang anihin

Mais Pagtatanim ng Mais: Gabay Mula Paghahanda ng Lupa Hanggang Ani

Ang pagtatanim ng mais ay puwedeng maging maayos na kabuhayan kung tama ang timing, ang binhi at ang alaga. Sa gabay na ito, dadaanan natin ang bawat hakbang sa maisan: p...

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Magsasakang nagdidilig ng mga kama ng gulay sa Pulilan, Bulacan, isang halimbawa ng pagtatanim ng gulay sa bakuran

Vegetables Pagtatanim ng Gulay: Hakbang Hakbang na Gabay Mula Punla Hanggang Ani

Mabilis ang balik ng pagtatanim ng gulay. Ang petsay ay puwede nang anihin lima hanggang pitong linggo mula sa paghahasik, sa bakuran man o sa bukid. Narito ang sunod sun...

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Banana plants with bagged bunches on both sides of a farm road in Panabo City, with two men cycling down it

Fruit and tree crops Banana Farming in the Philippines: Varieties, Spacing, Fertilizer and Disease

Banana farming in the Philippines runs from export Cavendish plantations in Davao to a few mats of saba behind the house. Bananas fruit all year and sell fresh, cooked or...

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Build the cropping calendar from these guides, track every bag of fertilizer and every peso, and ask Anee, the smart farm technician, when a leaf looks wrong. In Tagalog or English.

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