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Money-making potential of cashew through value-adding technologies

20Mar

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Money-making potential of cashew through value-adding technologies

Palawan is still the leading producer of cashew in the Philippines owing to the 93 percent cashew nut production. Official data obtained from Provincial Agriculturist Teresita Guian indicated that the area planted to cashew reached to 62,859 hectares as of June 2013.While Palawan’s share on nut production is high, cashew farmers are still facing problems of low income from their production. Identified factors included inferior quality of processed kernels (cashew fruit seed) and unutilized cashew apple (flesh or meat).Very little activity is being done on processing cashew apples in terms of value-adding. Since the nut is only 10 percent of the total average weight of the fruit, around 90 percent is wasted. With the anticipated increase of nut production because of its expa...

17Feb

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Food Business Ideas

How to Make Plum Jam

In Vietnam, ethnic minorities in the northern mountainous areas grow plum using the variety Prunus trifolium. The methodology of plum jam processing at the household level was developed to help farmers produce good quality plum jam that could be used for the whole year or can be sold in the market for additional income.Steps in Making Plum JamSelection and Cleaning Select soft ripened plum fruit, eliminating the diseased and rotten ones. Clean and dry thoroughly.Ingredients: - 5 kg plum - 4 kg of sugarProcedure: - Pour plum into boiling pot for 15-20 minutes, then transfer boiled plum into a basket.- Put the basket full of plum on top of the pot. Carefully crush the plum so that the meat could be filtered onto the bottom of the pot.- Mix sugar with plum meat, b...

27Jan

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Food Business Ideas

How to Make Toddy & Palm Wine

Toddy and palm wine are alcoholic beverages that are made by fermenting the sugary sap from various palm plants. Virtually any sugary plant sap can be processed into an alcoholic beverage – it just needs the correct yeasts, temperature and processing conditions.Throughout the world, alcoholic drinks are made from the juices of locally grown plants including coconut palm, oil palm, wild date palm, nipa palm, raphia palm and kithul palm. The terms toddy and palm wine are both used to describe similar alcoholic drinks – the terminology varies from country to country. In this brief toddy refers to the fermented flower sap from the coconut palm (Cocus neusifera) and palm wine refers to the fermented sap, collected from the trunk, of other palms including raphia (Raphia hookeri or R. vinifer...

11Jan

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AgriBusiness

A Profitable Venture from Oregano

To many Filipinos, oregano is well-known as a medicinal herb or even as a condiment to their food. Oregano, plant rich in Vitamin A and C, contains strong antioxidant properties and possesses antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antifungal and antiviral properties. Popularly, oregano is believed to relieve coughs.But more than these therapeutic uses, oregano is now being popularized and commercialized into wine, juice for human, juice for poultry, tea, and vinegar. These were packaged through the project titled "Development of Special Product Lines from Philippine Oregano Coleus aromaticus Benth". by Dr. Estela C. Taño, Ms. Rhodora M. Huelva, Ms. Annabel P. Masongsong, and Mr. Emilio M. Mejia, Jr. of the Quezon Agricultural Experiment Station, Lagalag, Tiaong, Quezon.The Bureau of Agr...

3Jan

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Food Business Ideas

How to Make Tofu and Soy Milk

In China and Japan fresh soy milk is made daily using a simple, centuries-old process of grinding soaked soybeans and pressing the soy milk out of the beans. There, soy milk is sold by street vendors or in cafes. Soy milk is served hot or cold and is often flavored with soy sauce and vegetables to produce a spicy soup.A staple in Asia for 2,000 years, tofu is known for its extraordinary nutritional benefits, as well as its versatility. Tofu, also known as soya curd, is a soft cheese-like food made by curdling soya milk with a coagulant. (more…)

18Dec

By PB1 Comment

AgriBusiness

Ubi Powder Business

Yam (Discolorea alata L.) commonly known as ubi is a main ingredient to the processed ubi powder. With about 300-600 species, this promising rootcrop grows abundantly in Central Visayas, Northern Mindanao, CARAGA, CAR and some parts in Luzon. This rootcrop is traditionally planted in March to June and harvested from December to February.The varieties with purple to deep purple color are the commercially grown varieties in the Philippines. Other varieties which have flesh that are only very lightly tinged with purple pigment are also grown. The in-demand varieties are the Kinampay in Bohol, Ozamis variety in Mindanao, the Tagalog variety in Southern Luzon and Sampero variety in Benguet.The ubi tuber is rich in starch. It also contains substantial amounts of calcium, phosphorous and ...

19Aug

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Food Business Ideas

Spice-Cured Tinapa

A typical Filipino breakfast usually has fish in it. From the traditional way of simply frying, boiling, or blanching fish, Filipinos have learned other ways of making a more delightful means of preparing and preserving fish.Fish and marine products are now prepared and processed by either smoking, drying, salting, or canning.In the Philippines, smoked fish locally known as tinapa is very popular and has become part of the Filipino meal, especially during breakfast.However, tinapa relatively possesses a characteristic of being smoky and with a short shelf life. In this context, a study on smoked fish was conceptualized and spice-curing technology was developed by the Southern Luzon State University (SLSU) in Lucban, Quezon headed by Prof. Delia Babilonia.This research aimed at in...

17Aug

By PB6 Comments

AgriBusiness

AgriTourism Development in the Philippines

Philippine tourism development today has taken a major leap forward by incorporating agricultural and environmental activities into its programs that encourage active involvement and participation of people and their communities. Specifically, these are the agri-tourism and eco-tourism endeavors of institutions, organizations, local government units, or even individuals who use technologies generated and developed out of agricultural research and development (R&D) and protection and conservation practices on the environment as a profitable activities for tourists, including its aesthetic valuation.(more…)

17Aug

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AgriBusiness

Pili Nuts and Its Uses

The seeds or kernels of pili (Canarium ovatum) are edible nuts, thus, the words "pili nuts" are derived. However, pili nuts are not just for consumption. Let's first look at the characteristics of pili as well as its uses.Pili tree The pili tree is regarded as an organically grown tree (without any application of chemicals, pesticides, and fungicides for the duration of growth, fruit production, and harvest). The average tree starts bearing fruits six to seven years after planting with an estimated average fruit yield of 1,000-2,000 fruits per tree. However, there are certain varieties that bear flower at three to four years after planting. Pili trees could grow and last for a century.Pili trees vary much in their fruit-bearing capacity. The poor-bearing trees may produce 500 frui...

23Jun

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Food Business Ideas

Value added Products from Pangasius

A balanced and healthy diet is what almost everybody wants nowadays. What is considered to be healthy is what sells most in the market. Because of this, many food products tagged as "healthy" or "nutritious" came out and eventually conquered the food industry business, thus, making their manufacturers wealthy and at the same time, helping the community increase its investments and employment.It is with the above premise that the Department of Trade and Industry 12 has promoted the processing of Pangasius Value-Added Products to MSMEs in the Region. With the advent of a steady increase in supply of Pangasius and the health nutrients that its products can offer, who then, can go wrong in venturing into this business.First, the meat recovery of Pangasius, just like tuna, is very high ...

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