The Filipino Entrepreneur

The BFAR Fisheries Scholarship Program is offering undergraduate scholarships to deserving students (Fisheries Scholarship Progam) and also to children of small-scale fisherfolk (Fisherfolk Children Educational Grant) who are interested to pursue a four-year BS Fisheries course. The scholarship program provides FIVE slots per region. Interested applicants should meet the following qualifications:

For High School Students:

• High school student of the current year
• Not more than 20 years old
• Belongs to the TOP TEN of his / her graduating class (not upper 10%), duly certified by the school head / principal

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Think it’s about time that we look for other alternative milk sources. This is because of the melamine in milk scare, those who can’t afford the high prices of milk, the rest of the grass roots like us will have no choice but to buy them. I got an article I read from the Philippine Star newspaper on the Opinion section. It might be a good topic to ponder. Read on……

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Locally, toddy is commonly called “tuba”. It is usually bottled and made into coconut wine, mixed with cinnamon bark to prevent fermentation which turns it into vinegar. Palm toddy is another kind of sap but not from coconut tree, it is from palm trees. Below are some technologies and procedures to convert the coconut sap into other value added products aside from wine.

Technology Description

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Have you heard about Mr. Seeds? this is business of Mr. Allain Rubin, a PC game developer and a 3D artist. He pioneered the online selling of plant seeds in the internet the Philippines. I guess he is the first one in this country selling seeds online or there are others who already done this unique business but he is the one I read in the magazine first, the Entrepreneur Magazine. In his business you can order vegetable seeds online or other kinds of herb seeds and he will deliver it to you by courier.

According to the magazine I read, his best sellinfg herbs are basil, rosemary, marjoran, lemon and mint. On the other hand, his popular fruit seeds are melon (possibly cantaloupe) and watermelon. Now you have another business idea. But even the greatest idea in the world and without a good promotion, will not be successful so again to make to known to others you have to advertise your products. So did Mr. Rubin by advertising on online shopping sites and forums. He said he goes to Entrepreneur Magazine forum and Pinoy Exhange as well as post advertising on Sulit.Com and Buy and Sell Philippines. So if you are interested you can visit his site where maybe there are seeds online catalog you can find ( http://www.geocities.com/mister_seeds/ ).

Bioorganic Fertilizer (BOF) From Coir Dust And Animal Manures

Bioorganic Fertilizer (BOF) is a processed inoculated compost from any organic material that has undergone rapid decomposition by the introduction of homogeneous microbial inoculants. This is different from fresh organic fertilizer where natural decay process is brought about by the action of heterogeneous microbes present in the organic matter. Compared with the traditional composting method, microbial inoculation hastens the decomposition from three months to just 3-4 weeks.
Inoculants are commercially available in selected areas in the country but could be easily accessed. Trichoderma harzianum , a single celled fungus hastens the decomposition of organic materials especially those high in lignin and cellulose like rice straw, coir dust, bagasse and weeds. Commercial inoculants i.e Greenmix, Mabijon composter are enriched with other beneficial microbes like the nitrogen fixing bacteria, Azotobacter.

Can I make organic fertilizer? To produce quality organic fertilizer, plant residues like coir dust, bagasse, mudpress, rice straw etc. must be mixed with animal residues. Leguminous plants could be part of the substrate to substitute part of the manure.

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