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==News About Pandan== | ==News About Pandan== | ||
'''Weaving, Pandan as livelihood crop''' | |||
*Source:http://www.mb.com.ph/weaving-pandan-as-livelihood-crop/ | |||
:By Melody M. Aguiba | |||
The native weaving and food crop “Pandan” are being developed as a livelihood and plantation crop in calamity-affected communities in Bicol. | |||
Albay communities are now taking advantage of the extra income from a highly abundant crop “Karagomoi”, more popularly known as pandan, as a weaving material for handicraft items. | |||
Their products include bags, slippers, placemats, table mats, picture frames, bones, and wall decors. | |||
Pandan is very adaptable to the local soil and readily grows in backyards, shorelines, and in uplands. It may easily be intercropped with coconut and tree plantations. | |||
A project which will improve the quality of Albay’s pandan products has been pursued by the Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Council for Agriculture Aquatic Resources Research and Development. | |||
This is the Integrated Research and Development Project for Karagomoi to Create Agri-industrial Business Opportunities in Albay. | |||
“In a calamity-prone area like the Bicol region, pandan is a source of hope and a symbol of resilience for many. Making handicrafts provides livelihood and enhances people’s creativity in developing novel products,” reported Meryll Kyla Irader in Farmnews. | |||
Farmers need to be trained on plantation development for pandan in order to achieve economies of scale in handicraft production. | |||
Pandan is usually harvested three years upon plantation development. | |||
Aside from backyard farming, the lowly pandan can now be planted in marshlands, shaded areas under forest trees and as intercrop with coconut and anahaw. It may also be planted along creeks and river banks. | |||
Farmers are discouraged from planting pandan together with commonly growing trees like Ipil Ipil and Isis as this causes prevalence in diseases in pandan such as leaf spot and scars. Farmers are encouraged to clean the farms especially in intercropping sites. | |||
Planting materials that are clean or disease-free are being reproduced. Suckers are obtained only from healthy mother plants. | |||
A drying system may also need to be developed since drying pandan takes around two days. On sunny days, pandan leaves are easier to dry by exposing them to the sun the whole day. | |||
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'''5 alternative uses of pandan leaves''' | '''5 alternative uses of pandan leaves''' | ||
*Source:http://jewelpie.com/5-alternative-uses-for-pandan-leaves-screwpine-leaves/ | *Source:http://jewelpie.com/5-alternative-uses-for-pandan-leaves-screwpine-leaves/ | ||