Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Farms that trade crocodile skin are regulated by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). [62] [63] Crocodiles help maintain the balance of Philippine ecosystems such as wetlands; crocodile farming in the Philippines is also geared towards the rescue and conservation of both C. porosus and the "endangered and endemic ...
The Philippines is the 8th-largest rice producer in the world, accounting for 2.8% of global rice production. [1] The Philippines was also the world's largest rice importer in 2010. [2] [needs update] There are an estimated 2.4 million rice farmers in the Philippines as of 2020. [3]
Intensive animal farming, industrial livestock production, and macro-farms, [1] also known as factory farming, [2] is a type of intensive agriculture, specifically an approach to animal husbandry designed to maximize production while minimizing costs. [3]
Loading sugar onto an ocean steamer at the Iloilo Port, 1917 The Calamba Sugar Central sugar mill on Luzon in 1929 Central Aucarera de La Carlota (a sugar mill). Sugar became the most important [according to whom?] agricultural export of the Philippines between the late eighteenth century and the mid-1970s because of two main reasons: 1) foreign exchange earned and 2) it was the basis of ...
These include the Gross Ostrich Farm in Nueva Ecija owned by Michael Gross and the Davao Crocodile Park (as the name implies, this farm also has a crocodile farm) in the Davao Region of Mindanao. [3] There is also an ostrich farm in the village of Sta. Monica in San Luis, Pampanga in Luzon. [5]
Industrial agriculture is a form of modern farming that refers to the industrialized production of crops and animals and animal products like eggs or milk.The methods of industrial agriculture include innovation in agricultural machinery and farming methods, genetic technology, techniques for achieving economies of scale in production, the creation of new markets for consumption, the ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
Coffee is an important agricultural product in the Philippines, and is one of the Philippines' most important export products [1] aside from being in high demand in the country's local consumer market. [2] The Philippines is one of the few countries that produce the four main viable coffee varieties; Arabica, Liberica , Excelsa and Robusta.