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==DA-12 promotes Adlai as alternative staple== | |||
*Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=410286 | |||
*March 5, 2012, 5:06 pm | |||
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GENERAL SANTOS CITY, March 5 (PNA) -- Besides the traditional food staple like rice, corn and camote, the Department of Agriculture (DA) in Region 12 is now advocating the propagation of Adlai as an alternative food crop. | |||
Amalia Datukan, DA-Region 12 director, said the regional office has started promoting Adlai in line with the directive issued by DA Secretary Proceso Alcala to make the country self-food sufficient. | |||
Adlai (Coix lacryma-jobi L.) is a freely branching upright herb that grows as tall as three feet and propagates through seeds. | |||
Known also as Job’s tears due to the tear-like shape of its grains, which come as white or brown, it belongs to the family Poaceae or the grasses, the same family to which wheat, corn and rice belong. | |||
Adlai is used to make body accessories like beads and bracelets, according to a statement from the DA regional office. | |||
Aside from food source, Adlai is also utilized as an alternative remedy against various diseases like tumor, appendicitis, arthritis, beriberi, bronchitis, diabetes, dysentery, fever, headache and many other ailments, it added. | |||
Datukan said the regional office’s research stations have started planting this type of grass and that they are conducting research studies to further discover the other potentials of Adlai. | |||
“We can complete Adlai’s potentials through the integrated cooperation of non-government organizations, private sectors and the DA,” she said. | |||
“Through this, we will obtain essential results to develop additional mechanics on Adlai production, market projection and conventional and organic crop management system,” she added. | |||
Recently, an Adlai farm technology demonstration in Barangay Carpenter Hill in Koronadal City was recorded to harvest more than three tons per hectare, the DA regional office said. | |||
Adlai is usually harvested every after four or five months after planting. Its grains are separated from its stalks through a thresher, then dried before milled. | |||
==COMMENTARY: The titans clash but where is mining headed to?== | ==COMMENTARY: The titans clash but where is mining headed to?== | ||
*Source: http://www.mindanews.com/mindaviews/2012/03/04/commentary-the-titans-clash-but-where-is-mining-headed-to/ | *Source: http://www.mindanews.com/mindaviews/2012/03/04/commentary-the-titans-clash-but-where-is-mining-headed-to/ | ||
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One wonders what would have been the outcome of the conference had the organizers also invited peasants, workers and indigenous peoples who are first to be affected by the operations of these big mining companies. | One wonders what would have been the outcome of the conference had the organizers also invited peasants, workers and indigenous peoples who are first to be affected by the operations of these big mining companies. | ||
All these marginalized people would have preferred that is when the rich are clashing, the poor should not be bearing the blame. (MindaViews is the opinion section of MindaNews. Edwin Espejo writes for asiancorrespondent.com) | All these marginalized people would have preferred that is when the rich are clashing, the poor should not be bearing the blame. (MindaViews is the opinion section of MindaNews. Edwin Espejo writes for asiancorrespondent.com) | ||
==Feature: Convergence in divergence in GenSan’s 2012 Kalilangan Festival== | ==Feature: Convergence in divergence in GenSan’s 2012 Kalilangan Festival== | ||