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Philippine Mahogany Tree

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Philippine Mahogany Tree Mahogany is a term used to refer to different types of tree in the Philippines. The popular mahogany commonly seen in the Philippines is grown for its fast growth and hard wood. The scientific name of the introduced mahogany is Swietenia macrophylla.  The common mahogany tree brought during American occupation of the Philippine islands. The species is indigenous from the South American continent and Mexico . It is also called big-leaf mahogany, West Indian mahogany, Honduran mahogany, and Honduras mahogany. Considered as a hard wood, the plant belongs to Meliaceae family which yields genuine mahogany timber and will be covered by our production guide review. The tree has many applications. It can be cultivated and grown for as a source of genuine mahogany wood and can be cut into timber. The wood has the following applications and use: 1. Wood can be used for paneling 2. Making furniture 3. Boats and musical instruments It may also be ...

Online Stock Brokers Philippines

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Online Stock Brokers Philippines Shown below is the table of 2017 online stock brokers in the Philippines. The list of brokers online are as follows: AB Capital Securities, Inc., Abacus Securities Corporation, AP Securities Incorporated (Formerly: Angping & Associates Securities, Inc.), BA Securities, Inc., BDO Nomura Securities Inc. (Formerly: PCIB Securities, Inc.), BPI Securities Corporation, Coherco Securities, Inc., Col Financial Group, Inc., Da Market Securities, Inc., F. Yap Securities, Inc., First Metro Securities Brokerage Corporation, HDI Securities, Inc., Investors Securities, Inc., Jaka Securities Corporation, Lucky Securities, Inc., Maybank Atr Kim Eng Securities, Inc., Meridian Securities Incorporated, Optimum Securities Corporation, Philstocks Financial Inc. (Formerly Accord Capital Equities Corporation), RCBC Securities, Inc., Regina Capital Development Corporation, Timson Securities, Inc., UCPB Securities, Inc., Unicapital Securities, Inc., and Wealth Securit...

Blue Chip Stocks in the Philippines

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Blue Chips Stocks Blue chip  is stock in a corporation listed as a publicly traded company in the stock market with a national reputation for reliability and quality. It is characterized with the ability to operate profitably in good times and bad which makes it a leader in their industry. We feature below the list of blue chip stocks in the Philippines for 2017. Blue chip companies in the Philippines are: Ayala Corporation, Aboitiz Equity Ventures, Incorporated, Alliance Global Group, Incorporated, Ayala Land, Incorporated, Aboitiz Power Corporation, BDO Unibank, Incorporated, Bank of the Philippine Islands, DMCI Holdings, Incorporated, Energy Development Corporation, Emperador Incorporated, First Gen Corporation, Globe Telecom, Incorporated, GT Capital Holdings, Incorporated, International Container Terminal Services, Incorporated, Jollibee Foods Corporation, JG Summit Holdings, Incorporated, LT Group, Incorporated, Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company, Megaworld Corp...

Nata de Coco Recipes

Nata de Coco Nata de Coco  is a solid jelly-like substance characterized by translucent appearance and chewy texture. It is produced in the Philippines in 1970s on a research in preservation of coconut water. Now the product was exported to neighboring countries and also to some markets all over the world. Truly, Philippine Nata de Coco is a quality product and demand for it continues to grow. The ferminatation of the coconut water is aided by Acetobacter xylinum which provides the culture characteristics of microbial cellulose. Now, Indonesia, and Malaysia also process nata de coco along with pioneer country Philippines in terms of exports, and was primarily used for desert ingredients or as sweetened candy. It's wide application also found its way into high end products like ice cream, drinks, and fruit cocktails. The advantage of Nata de coco versus traditional sweets ingredient is that it has high dietary fiber content and low caloric content. The health consious can eas...

Burong Mangga Recipe

Burong Mangga Burong mangga or Pickled raw mangoes, are a favorite Filipino food. Due to the abundance of mangoes in the Philippines, the sour but yummy taste of mango makes it a favorite snack. However, mangoes are known to be seasonal fruit tree and only have plenty supply of fruits on April, May and June. Sometimes the tree produces fruits at later months but are few. In lieu of the mango fruit season, pickling mangoes has been a practice to have a stockpile of tasty raw mangoes preserved but not dried. Drying mangoes applies to ripe mangoes. IF you want to have the preserved juicy mangoes, prepare a pickled or burong mangga. Burong Mangga Recipe 1. Prepare the green mangoes. Any mango variety can be pickled. Choose based on available jar size. 2. Clean the mango fruit by washing it. Peel the skin off the mangoes. The peelings are needed in the pickling process. 3. Boil 5 cups of water together with the mixed 4 tablespoon of table salt, and 2 table spoon sugar. 4. A...

How to Make Century Eggs

Century Eggs Century egg is also known as preserved egg or hundred years egg. Century Eggs originated in the Chinese cuisine of preserved food product and delicacy. The egg come from chicken, dusks or quail eggs. Contrary to its name, the eggs are prepared 4 to 5 weeks in a setup that makes the eggs preserved. There was a fascinating story about the egg. According to an unverified legend, during Ming Dynasty, a home-owner has discovered some duck eggs in a pool of shallow lime mortar during a 2 month house construction. As the taste is acceptable, the preservation was enhance to bring flavours to this unique eggs.  Preparing century eggs in atraditional way involves the use of table salt, lime and ash for hydroxide. After 10 days of soaking, the eggs are covered by rice husks to promote aerobic reaction in the egg. The process makes the egg yolk into a dark green color while the white turns into brown, dark orange or amber. How to Make Century Eggs 1. Prepare mate...

Piggery Business Tips

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What is a Piggery? Piggery is a farm where pigs are raised or bred. It involves the raising of pigs for purpose of livestock meat production and can also be developed for pig breeding. We will present the statistics to support our analysis on the status of Philippine piggery business and hog raising this 2017. Piggery as Business Piggery is a lucrative business. Many backyard farmers started from small piggery that has a potential to grow into large and medium scale farms when properly managed. Piggery involves growing and selling of pigs. Pigs can be sold for their meat. The cost of meat in the Philippines has increased. Now the pork meat per kilo is Php180.00 to Php200.00 in July 2017 from the price at Php130.00 to Php140.00 back in March 2015. This turned out to increase the live-weight price per kilo of pork meat, which is an advantage to local piggery owners. Demand for pork is high, but the supply goes down as you will see on the data below. As of January 1, 2017 accordi...

Solar Energy in the Philippines

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Solar power is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV), or indirectly using concentrated solar power. Photovoltaic cells convert light into an electric current using the photovoltaic effect. The abundance of sunlight as renewable energy is seeing application to the Energy sector as various investments for Solar Farms in the Philippines is being undertaken. Since Philippines is located near the equator and the intensity of light is more direct compared to high latitude countries, utilizing this free energy is ideal for the growing energy needs of the country as well as conservatory efforts for the environment by cutting fossil fuels for electricity generation. This year, Solar Philippines will invest over $150 M for new Tarlac facility( Conception, Tarlac). Together with the Department of Energy secretary Alfonso Cusi, groundbreaking ceremony of the company’s 150-megawatt (MW) project happened last March 17, 2017 eyed ...

BDO Nomura Review

It is very easy now to open your own stock trading account. If you really want to invest in stocks, you can now do so purely online without talking to a stock broker or sending fax of signed documents. Via BDO Nomura, you can start investing to the stock market. We will review BDO Nomura.

Investing and Online Trading to the Philippine Stock Market with BDO Nomura

It is very easy now to open your own stock trading account. If you really want to invest in stocks, you can now do so purely online without talking to a stock broker or sending fax of signed documents. Via BDO Nomura, you can start investing to the stock market.

Farming Practices for Muscovy Duck

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Little known to us, Muscovy duck is the name of the large duck commonly grown in the Philippines. Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata) males about 76 cm (30 in) long, and can weigh up to 7 kg. Females Muscovy ducks are smaller, and can grow to 3 kg, about half the size of the male. We can see these ducks in  white and black, with the back feathers being iridescent and glossy in males, while the females are more drab. The amount of white on the neck and head is variable, as well as the bill, which can be yellow, pink, black, or any mixture of these colors. They may have white patches or bars on the wings, which become more noticeable during flight. Both male and female  have pink or red wattles around the bill, those of the male being larger and more reddish.

Napier Grass for Goat Raisers

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The high demand and marketability for goat meat in the Philippines is yet to be met by the supply. For the current statistics showing that commercial goat raisers accounts to 2 percent of total goat population compared to 98 percent from backyard raisers still shows opportunities for enhancement. Goat raising is a sunrise industry with big opportunities for growth and sustainability.  Related: Goat Farming Tips : Sustainable and Effective Farm Management

Backyard 45 Days Broiler Farming

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Chickens are popular among backyard raisers. It is due to high marketability of chickens. Most people love chicken meat. It can be fried plainly or with flour for added crisp. It can also be cooked as chicken adobo, chicken curry and other dishes. All public market has its own area for chicken meat. We also see fastfoods selling their own recipe for fried chicken. Other small chicken entrepreneurs sell lechon manok while being roasted.

How to Pay Your Pag-IBIG Housing Loan or Savings

Maari ng bayaran ang iyong Pag-IBIG Housing Loan at Savings gamit ang Gcash. Sa pamamagitan ng makabagong paraan ng pagbabayad ng iyong kontribusyon o housing loan ay maaaring mapadali ang iyong transaksyon sa Pag-IBIG. Mapapabilis at hindi na uubos ng iyong oras sa pagpila sa mga Pag-IBIG office o mga Bayad center. Magpatuloy lamang sa mga sumusunod na nilalaman upang malaman ang paraan na ito.