ROOT CROP PAROL: This resident of Calstilla town arrange the lighting of 'Eco-Parol' made of Pili shells, peanut and corn while being displayed at the hallway of Castilla Municipal Hall on Tuesday afternoon.
Growth of the starchy roots market will continue to be driven by inherent attributes of
root crops such as high carbohydrate content, which tends to be an economical source of dietary energy.
Members of the cabbage family require heavy supplies of nitrogen, whereas
root crops, such as carrots, parsnips, turnips and beetroot, need less nitrogen but more phosphate.
The new
root crop peeling area, including a technologically advanced potato line, gives greater flexibility to produce tighter graded product and helps to improve yields and throughputs.
Extremely infertile; this is the best time for harvesting
root crops because molds and bacteria do not reproduce as quickly, and the
root crop will store better.
Shine, who had a massive hit with his song Carrots From Clonown, is sponsoring a competition to find the biggest
root crop in the land.
Every course had Filipino cooking and a foreign dish, but the
root crop was always present in both.
Citing several studies, city health officials said the
root crop contains hydrocyanic acid (HCN), which is considered dangerous.
Genetic engineering has been used to fortify a staple
root crop grown in poorer parts of the world with enough vitamins, minerals and protein to provide a day's worth of nutrition in a single meal.
It follows, therefore, that in a plot prepared for brassicas with plenty of farmyard manure or equivalent rich in nitrogen and phosphate, once the cabbages have been harvested sufficient phosphate remains in the soil to carry a
root crop the following year.
These machines are the cassava digger and cassava belt drier, pectin extraction system for mango peels, village-level coco water pasteurizer, compact corn mill, impeller-type brown rice huller,
root crop washer and mechanical onion seeder.
But a look at the menu showed that the
root crop was just one of the comparisons to be made with our food and those of other countries.
The pinhead-size cassava green mite (Mononychellus tanajoa) is one of several pests that feed on the starchy
root crop, a food staple for hundreds of millions of people in the developing world.
In fact, the cereal and bean harvest that ended last July was 60 percent below normal, and the
root crop harvest dropped by 30 percent, Scowcroft says.
This is what farmers discovered from planting the
root crop in the last decade in at least four villages in Moncada, Tarlac province.
