This year is La Nina year, evidenced by the uncharacteristically exorbitant amount of rainfall that we are getting… this year will be a good year for crop production in Mindanao. The trade off also is that we get flooding all the time, fair enough trade off I say…what people should know, is that next year is an El Nino year, based from history El Nino always follows a La Nina… meaning we won’t be having that much rainfall and drought will set in…

This should give people ample time to prepare reservoirs in their farms and think up of other stuff to be able to stockpile on water…

Here’s an interesting method of propping that I saw being used by one of the bigger commercial farmers of banana…


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I just have to say that again… Foliar Fertilization Rocks!!!…

As evidenced by the size of my lacatan bananas (reference to my hand, and no I don’t have tiny hands *snicker*)… a weekly spraying regimen was all I followed without any ground fertilization for about 4 months already (too expensive for my budget)… foliar is much cheaper too if you mix it yourself and not go for those on the shelf…

The problem is in sourcing the materials since some times you have to buy an entire 22 kg sack for something you will be using a pinch of… good thing I know some farmers who do foliar too so I get to ask for some elements from them and vice versa…

then again I’m not really into commercial planting since I only do it in my back yard…

I was in my uncle’s farm a few day’s back and we were comparing the sizes from two different batches of lakatan bananas planted in his farm. The batch which was planted with Lapanday Hybrid’s were of bigger size… around 20kg/bunch was our estimate…

Too bad my plantings were not from Lapanday.. *sniff*