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Tips for Growing your Business: Flourish in a Planned Way!

6Dec

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Tips for Growing your Business: Flourish in a Planned Way!

Growing your business is just like planting a tree and taking care of it. It's not an easy job; it needs to be taken care of with proper attention. Growing business is not easy as it could be thought of. It needs proper planning, it has to be well executed. Use of proper equipments, and a continuous check, interest and willingness to grow the business in the market. By following some tips for growing your business, you can execute your business in planned manner.Growing your business needs proper planning and a schedule to follow. You can start by learning about the experience of the other business in the market, how they are growing, and the strategy adopted by them to grow their business. Use of proper equipments at the right time will help you to achieve your business goals. Do some...

8Mar

By PB1 Comment

AgriBusiness

Growing Cashew

An economically important fruit crop, cashew consist of large, pear-shaped, fleshly fruit and small kidney-shaped seed (nut) attached to one end. Both the fleshly fruit and the nut are the edible and has considerable commercial value.The flesh portion of the fruit is eaten as dessert and also used in wine, alcohol and vinegar manufacture. Cashew nut is eaten when roasted and used in the preparation of cakes, pastries ice cream, candies and chocolates. The nut of the shell is used as a woodcarving preservative against white ants, while the gum is also an important ingredients in the manufacture of varnish. The kernel is a source of oil.Although very useful, cashew is not widely planted in the Philippines. In 1985, from a total of 7,130 hectares of land planted to cashew we produced ...

21Feb

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Business Ideas

Starting a Landscaping Business

Landscaping has become a popular phenomenon these days. Many commercial establishments such as restaurants and shopping malls utilize a well-defined landscape to attract customers. Households with spacious front and backyard establish landscapes to beautify their homes. Even theme parks, memorial parks, and golf courses utilize plants in their landscapes to make their surroundings aesthetically tasteful.Landscaping is a general term that refers to any activity that modifies the visible features of an area of a land. It is the art and science of designing and managing the outdoor space to create an environment that is highly suitable to the biological and physiological well-being of man. As a science, landscaping involves technical knowledge for the selection, arrangement, and grow...

13Feb

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AgriBusiness

Alternative Biofuel from Sunflower

In a bid to decrease the country's over dependence on fuel, various research institutions started to focus their leads in studying and identifying some of the most cost-effective and environment-friendly energy source to produce biofuels. Biofuels, such as bioethanol, biodiesel and biogas, are renewable fuels that are generally produced from agricultural crops or organic matter.This effort to find alternative bio-source is also in accordance with the recent passing into law of the Biofuel Acts or SB 2226 and the Department of Agriculture (DA)'s drive towards energy independence. The law requires that “a minimum of 1% biodiesel by volume shall be blended into all diesel engine fuels sold in the country subject to domestic supply and availability of locally sourced biodiesel component.” ...

11Feb

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AgriBusiness

Sweet Tamarind Propagation and Management

Tamarind (Tamarindus indica Linn.) is one of the minor fruit crops in the Philippines with a great potential for commercialization. In certain parts of the country, it is an important crop because its fruits and other parts have varied food and medicinal uses.Tamarind has great export potential because its fruit may be processed into a number of acceptable products. But the mature and ripened tamarind fruit of the sweet type is said to be more important and expensive than when it is processed. However, the supply still does not meet the demand.Sweet Tamarind PropagationTamarind may be propagated by seeds and asexual propagation (i.e. grafting). Propagation by seeds is not recommended because the resulting plants do not grow true-to-type.Seeds obtained from healthy and matu...

5Feb

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AgriBusiness

Violet sweetness: Ubi’s full potentials uncovered

In the provinces, "ubi" or purple yam is consumed as boiled root crop and as an ingredient to local dishes and sweets. Today, this root crop is also gaining popularity as flavoring and ingredient to a wide array of food products - from ice cream to cakes to candies to wines, etc.Ubi or purple yam is considered as minor commodity in the Philippines though, its commercial potential recognized. Ubi has many uses and can be utilized as both fresh tubers and processed products. It is an essential carbohydrate food with starch as its main component. It also contains sucrose and glucose which provide its sweet flavor.Aside from the starch and sugar contents of ubi, which makes it perfect for baking and confectionery preparations, it also has the essential proteins, phosphorus, crude f...

11Jan

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AgriBusiness

Anthurium Production Guide

The eye-catching blooms of anthurium are mere modified leaves called spathes. But these spathes are not ordinary because they come in bright colors and are glossy in appearance. A pot of flowering anthurium costs P80 to 250 depending on the variety. Price of cut flowers vary with the size.There are two types of anthurium, the foliages and the flowering type.Propagation. The suckers that have reached the 3 to 4 leaf stage any be separated from the mother plant and used as propagates (planting materials). If the cultivars do not produce suckers, the shoots produced by the remaining stump (a remnant, after the main part has been removed) may later be removed to produced more plants.Anthurium can also be propagated by means of seeds. However, seeds take 6 to 7 months to ripen afte...

23Oct

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AgriBusiness

Growing Orchids using Tissue Culture Technique

Orchids are among the popular cutflowers in the world. It has become the object of attention of many cutflower growers as it captures an element of beauty through its complexities and elegantly formed sepals. Different species of orchids are used widely in flower arrangements, corsage making, and as collection specimens for the hobbyists. One orchid genus, Vanilla, is commercially important as it is used as the source of the vanilla food flavoring. Through the years, with the development of new orchid species, the world-wide demand for orchids has rocketed giving the cutflower a high market value. (more…)

9Aug

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AgriBusiness

Young Corn Production Guide

Young cob corn (Zea mays L.), the newly developed corn, has been used by Chinese as vegetable for generations and this practice has spread to other Asian countries. It is used as ingredient in most food preparations. It has nutritive value similar to that of non-legume vegetable such as cauliflower, tomato, cucumber and cabbage (Yodpetch and Bautista, 1983). This vegetable has a great potential for cooking purposes and for processing as a canned product. Canned cob corn export to Thailand, Japan and Europe is increasing and has a good future.(more…)

30Jul

By PB2 Comments

AgriBusiness

Growing Mangosteen

Mangosteen, a delicious tropical fruit, is widely grown in Mindanao and is abundant during the months of July to September. It is one of the most praised of tropical fruits because of its amazing health benefits.Mangosteen is eaten fresh. The white, juice pulp around the seeds can be made into preserves after boiling in brown sugar. It is reach in protein, minerals and carbohydrates. Mangosteen peeling, when dried and boiled, is a very effective cure to diarrhea and dysentery.(more…)

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