Kayumanggi-a color, a brand, a way of life.
Kayumanggi directly translate to brown in english. It could also be a brand of organic products created with a desire to promote health awareness int he community.
Good Food Community: A Community Shared Agriculture
The challenges to achieving sustainable development serve as an invitation to evolve a system and culture that puts the planet and people first.
CBE Organic Fertilizer: The Optimal Formula
The challenge nowadays is the to address the need to reach the potential yield of agricultural crop production but in so doing, ensure that the nutritive content of the soil is being preserved, if not further enrich, and the quality of the products, safe for human consumption.
Organic-based Farm Practices in CBE Part I
The Center for Bayanihan Economics (CBE) has been nothing but faithful to the principles of sustainable agricultural. Organic-based farm practices are manifested throughout the land–from the terraces-occupied facade to the edges of the pathways, from small space turned into an urban agricultural prototype to the rainwater catchment.
The Search for the Vermicompost Substrates
In the process of composting, organic wastes like leguminous leaves, animal manure, rice straw, grasses, and kitchen wastes, collectively known as the substrates, are recycled into stabilized products that can be applied to the soil as organic fertilizer.
SEP joins Biodiversity-Friendly Bazaar
Advocacy and products of the LifeBank Foundation were highlighted during the Biodiversity-Friendly Bazaar and Innovation Forum held at the Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife Center (NAPWC) on October 15, 2016.
Apat na natural na pamamaraan laban sa mga pesteng insekto
Base sa pag-aaral ng mga eksperto sa Ramon Magsaysay-Center for Research and Extension Services, mayroong apat na natural na pamamaraan upang masugpo ang mga pesteng instekto.
Power juices for our organic farms
Unlike the chemical fertilizers and pesticides that most of our farmers use, the power juices are not only deadly to pests but they also proved to be effective in improving the nutritive value of our plants.
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Bayanihan and Economics, Yes They Do Mix
A once dry and dull piece of land was nurtured into a wellspring of innovations. Welcome to the Center for Bayanihan Economics.
Agripreneur in Focus: Tatay Ricardo
“Organikong pamamaraan ay tuklasin para magkaroon ng masagana at magandang ani ang ating bukid,” says Tatay Ricardo, who is part of LifeBank’s training and mentoring program. The training expanded his skill sets in crop production and opened him to new concepts in organic-based farming.
Inclusive Value Chain of Smart Agriculture
LifeBank’s Center for Bayanihan Economics advocates the Inclusive Value Chain of Smart Agriculture as a framework for addressing poverty and food insecurity. The framework serves as basis in crafting the Foundation’s complementary social development programs—Social Entrepreneurship Program (SEP) and Smart Agriculture Program (SAP).