By Rafael D. Guerrero III
We were at the recently held 40th Annual Scientific Meeting of the National Academy of Science and Technology (Philippines), Depart... Read More...
By Rafael D. Guerrero III
Our world today has two major water crises - the lack of clean water for drinking and the pollution of water bodies (seas, rivers a... Read More...
By Rafael D. Guerrero III
How we lost most of the endemic fishes in Lake Lanao and what we can do to save the remaining one
Lake Lanao is our country’s s... Read More...
By Rafael D. Guerrero III
Laguna de Bay, the largest freshwater lake in the country and the third largest in Southeast Asia, has an area of 90,000 hectares a... Read More...
By Rafael D. Guerrero III
Bernardo Calilung, a medical technologist farming rice in Brgy. Amucao, Tarlac, Tarlac with 19.48 hectares of irrigated land, star... Read More...
By Dr. Rafael Guerrero III
The first saline red tilapia was developed in the 1970s by Mike Sipes in the United States. He crossbred the mutant male Mozambiq... Read More...
By Dr. Rafael D. Guerrero III
Mariculture parks are areas in the sea that are similar to industrial parks or estates on land where the appropriate infrastruc... Read More...
By Dr. Rafael Guerrero III
The tilapia is the second most important cultured food fish in the world and in the Philippines. Unlike the native milkfish (Chano... Read More...
By Dr. Rafael D. Guerrero III
The National Integrated Fisheries Technology Center (NIFTC) of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in Barangay... Read More...
By Dr. Rafael D. Guerrero III
Mangroves consist of shrubs and trees that grow in the middle and upper intertidal zone (between low and high tides of the sea)... Read More...
By Dr. Rafael D. Guerrero III
There are an estimated 1.8 million hectares of grasslands in our country, according to a 1987 report of the Department of Envir... Read More...
By Dr. Rafael D. Guerrero III
More than two years ago, we visited the Kahariam Farms and Realty at Barangay Adya, Lipa City, Batangas and reported on its “Ve... Read More...
By Dr. Rafael Guerrero III
The pigeon (Columba livia) is the oldest domesticated bird in the world, with its domestication dating back to 220 AD.Its keen hom... Read More...
By Dr. Rafael D. Guerrero III
The integrated farming of rice and ducks in irrigated fields has long been practiced in China, Japan, and Korea. In the Philipp... Read More...
By Dr. Rafael D. Guerrero III
Crop production in agriculture requires effective control of plant pathogens, weeds, and invertebrates like insects that can re... Read More...
By Dr. Rafael D. Guerrero III
At the recent “SIPAG ni Juan” festival of the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Resources Research and Developmen... Read More...
By Dr. Rafael D. Guerrero III
The second most important subsector—next to land crops—of our country’s agriculture industry is fisheries. It contributed 1.6% ... Read More...
Rice-Fish farming is the integrated, simultaneous culture of rice and fish in irrigated rice fields or paddies. It is an old practice that is believed to have b... Read More...
Who knew that making money could be good for the environment as well?
By Dr. Rafael D. Guerrero III
The native pigs in the Philippines originated from the f... Read More...
By Dr. Rafael Guerrero
Our marine fisheries consist of the fish and other products harvested from coastal and oceanic waters. The fishing industry provides u... Read More...
