Bright days ahead for eggplant growers By Dr. Sosimo Ma. Pablico IN MANY RAINFED FARMS in Ilocos Region, the wet season rice is followed after a short fallow period by hybrid corn and vegetables, as the farmers can no longer produce another rice crop during the dry season. Among the…
Politics and politicians By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. AS COMMONLY known, politics is the art of governance or the science concerned with the form, organization and administration of government. The fact alone that it is an “art” or a “science” clearly says if not immediately implies that politics is…
Senatoriables Pingkoy and Joey 3 By Jun Velasco WHILE the world outlook is dimmed by the collapse of the US economy, there is hardly any come-from-behind effort by our national leaders to cushion the coming hardship. Worse, we tend to be like the ostrich that buries its head in the…
More on JDV and his bio-book By Gonzalo Duque IT isn’t bad at all to read from time to time the analyses and interpretations of seer Jojo Acuin of events especially those that have yet to happen. There are really gifted people who can know in advance what will happen….
Ilocos Region scion develops cheap soil analysis method By Dr. Sosimo Ma. Pablico LITTLE IS KNOWN that the Ilocos Region has produced a nationally known agriculture scientist who has developed an easy, fast, and cheap method of assessing soil fertility in irrigated rice farms that small rice farmers themselves can…
Season of renewal By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. It has become customary—either as a joke or a resolve—to make the so called “New Year’s Resolution” in view of the forthcoming parting of ways between the “old” and “new” year. In plain and simple words, there is in spirit the…
’tis the Season… By Therese Soriano I GET easily attracted to colorful decors along the streets that I couldn’t take my eyes off of them especially those uniquely done. I have one particular place that never fails to attract people’s attention especially those jitney passengers like me. On my way…
Quotable quotes from ‘Global Filipino’ By Jun Velasco FORMER Speaker Joe de Venecia will launch his book – “Global Filipino” authored by Brett M. Decker, one of the editors of the Wall Street Journal, tomorrow, December 22, at the Atrium (2nd floor Podium) at the…
Goodbye, Bal Balingit, 99 By Gonzalo Duque CHRISTMAS is almost here. Merry Christmas to one and all! * * * Younger brod Secretary Pinkoy won the admiration of the poor because of his program to dramatically lower the cost of medicines starting this Yule Season. We have advised him though…
DL Umali Achievement Award for a Vietnamese scientist (Part 2) By Dr. Sosimo Ma. Pablico AS PART of its sweeping doi moi reforms, the Vietnamese Communist Party in 1988 decentralized the distribution of farming inputs, freed prices, and gave farmers greater latitude in choosing crops. At the same time, the…
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