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dinsdag 23 december 2008
maandag 22 december 2008
Department of Agriculture and Miracle Tree
The government has introduced a biotechnology program for the miracle plant malunggay in Surigao City to commercialize the indigenous plant that can be processed into a pharmaceutical and industrial product.
Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary Arthur C. Yap led the distribution of vegetable seeds and seedlings a the St. Paul University gymnasium in Surigao City, Surigao del Norte, signaling DA s support for the commercialization program.
DA also co-launched the Social Action Network Joint Program on Sustainable Agriculture together with the seedling distribution in an ultimate aim to promote organic farming or reduced use of environmentally-harmful chemical pesticides and fertilizers.
The malunggay propagation program is expected to take off on a commercial scale a DA has singled out malunggay as the main crop under its program “One House, One Vegetable (OHOV).
OHOV, evidently adapted from the Department of Trade and Industrys One Town One Product (OTOP) program, is part of a poverty alleviation and malnutrition elimination effort specially among women and children in poor Caraga regions.
Malunggay can be used to fortify noodles, soup or bread with vitamins and minerals of the nutritious vegetables. Malunggays seeds can produce all-purpose-oil and can be used by industries for products like soap, shampoo, lotion and other personal health care products.
With adequate research, it can also be an alternative source of biofuel. As feed, the leaf and cake of the malunggay fruit or sepal can also be used as animal feed for goat, pig, cattle, chicken and ducks.
Malunggay production also has an intended market even as Monde Nissin or even San Miguel Corp. may become interested in processing the crop.
DA hopes the OHOV will encourage households to plant vegetables and put up their own backyard livestock enterprises (with goats and pigs) that will make available for them a ready food source while any excess may be channeled to the market.
DA has distributed a total of 53,500 malunggay seedlings to a total of 18,680 families or three seedlings per family at Caraga Region (Suriga and Agusan provinces and Butuan).
Identified as one of the poorest regions that have high malnutrition rate in the entire Philippines, Butuan will be benefited by programs to make malunggay a processed good as this can be used as ingredient for treating deficiency in iron and other nutrients like calcium.
The crop also easily and naturally grows everywhere in the country.
“A vegetable tree often ignored by the people, it will help boost government effort to fight hunger and poverty, as well as chronic malnutrition suffered by millions of millions of Filipinos, especially women and children,” DA said.
Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary Arthur C. Yap led the distribution of vegetable seeds and seedlings a the St. Paul University gymnasium in Surigao City, Surigao del Norte, signaling DA s support for the commercialization program.
DA also co-launched the Social Action Network Joint Program on Sustainable Agriculture together with the seedling distribution in an ultimate aim to promote organic farming or reduced use of environmentally-harmful chemical pesticides and fertilizers.
The malunggay propagation program is expected to take off on a commercial scale a DA has singled out malunggay as the main crop under its program “One House, One Vegetable (OHOV).
OHOV, evidently adapted from the Department of Trade and Industrys One Town One Product (OTOP) program, is part of a poverty alleviation and malnutrition elimination effort specially among women and children in poor Caraga regions.
Malunggay can be used to fortify noodles, soup or bread with vitamins and minerals of the nutritious vegetables. Malunggays seeds can produce all-purpose-oil and can be used by industries for products like soap, shampoo, lotion and other personal health care products.
With adequate research, it can also be an alternative source of biofuel. As feed, the leaf and cake of the malunggay fruit or sepal can also be used as animal feed for goat, pig, cattle, chicken and ducks.
Malunggay production also has an intended market even as Monde Nissin or even San Miguel Corp. may become interested in processing the crop.
DA hopes the OHOV will encourage households to plant vegetables and put up their own backyard livestock enterprises (with goats and pigs) that will make available for them a ready food source while any excess may be channeled to the market.
DA has distributed a total of 53,500 malunggay seedlings to a total of 18,680 families or three seedlings per family at Caraga Region (Suriga and Agusan provinces and Butuan).
Identified as one of the poorest regions that have high malnutrition rate in the entire Philippines, Butuan will be benefited by programs to make malunggay a processed good as this can be used as ingredient for treating deficiency in iron and other nutrients like calcium.
The crop also easily and naturally grows everywhere in the country.
“A vegetable tree often ignored by the people, it will help boost government effort to fight hunger and poverty, as well as chronic malnutrition suffered by millions of millions of Filipinos, especially women and children,” DA said.
vrijdag 19 december 2008
maandag 24 november 2008
'Malunggay Congress' to promote vegies as food, energy source
11/24/2008 | 10:00 AM
MANILA, Philippines - The first Malunggay Congress to be held this week as the country celebrates the 4th National Biotechnology Week will discuss the value of the vegetable as food and as a renewable energy source.
Malunggay, dubbed by Department of Agriculture-Biotechnology Program Office (DA-BPO) director Alicia Ilaga as the "power gulay," is also known as a key element in the campaign to reduce malnution.
As the central focus of the Congress, to be held at the Institute of Small Scale Industries (ISSI) at UP Diliman starting Monday, malunggay is seen as appropriate food for more than 20 million Filipinos who consider themselves poor and hungry.
Ilaga said malunggay is needed by lactating mothers because it has a high calcium content, which is necessary to produce milk.
She said malunggay has seven times the Vitamin C in orange, four times the calcium in milk, four times the Vitamin A in carrots, three times the potassium in banana, and three fourth the iron in pechay.
Malunggay is a host to many nutrients that are beneficial to the body, Ilaga stressed.
Studies show that every 100 grams of pod contain 2.5 grams protein, 0.1 grams fat, 8.5 grams carbohydrate, 4.8 grams fiber, and minerals such as Calcium (30 milligrams), Phosphorus (110 milligrams), and Iron (5.3 milligrams).
Leaves (per 100 grams) contain 7.5 grams water, 6.7 grams protein, 1.7 g fat, 14.3 g total carbohydrate, 0.9 grams fiber, 2.3 grams ash, and minerals, Calcium (440 mg), Phosphorus (70 mg), Iron (7 mg), Copper (110 ?g) and Vitamin A, and Vitamin C. The leaves also contain different amino acids and estrogenic substances, including the anti-tumor compound, sitosterol, and a pectinesterase.
Water, protein and fiber can be found in the seed kernel (70.74% of seed). The seed oil contains 9.3% palmitic, 7.4% stearic, 8.6% behenic, and 65.7% oleic acids among the fatty acids.
Malunggay contains the phytochemical niaziminin, which is found to have molecular components that can prevent the development of cancer cells, a study undertaken in 1992 discovered, and it is correlated with inhibitory ability against superoxide generation.
The first naturally-occuring thiocarbamates, novel hypotensive agents such as niazinin A, niazinin B, niazimicin and niaziminin A and B were isolated from malunggay, Ilaga stressed.
Malunggay is being used as a too to combat malnutrition among infants and mothers alike. Three international non-government organizations—Trees for Life, Church World Service and Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization—have preached malunggay as the “natural food for the tropics."
Leaves can be eaten fresh, cooked, or stored as dried powder for many months without refrigeration, and reportedly without loss of nutritional value. Moringa is especially promising as a food source in the tropics because the tree is in full leaf at the end of the dry season when other foods are typically scarce, Ilaga said.
MANILA, Philippines - The first Malunggay Congress to be held this week as the country celebrates the 4th National Biotechnology Week will discuss the value of the vegetable as food and as a renewable energy source.
Malunggay, dubbed by Department of Agriculture-Biotechnology Program Office (DA-BPO) director Alicia Ilaga as the "power gulay," is also known as a key element in the campaign to reduce malnution.
As the central focus of the Congress, to be held at the Institute of Small Scale Industries (ISSI) at UP Diliman starting Monday, malunggay is seen as appropriate food for more than 20 million Filipinos who consider themselves poor and hungry.
Ilaga said malunggay is needed by lactating mothers because it has a high calcium content, which is necessary to produce milk.
She said malunggay has seven times the Vitamin C in orange, four times the calcium in milk, four times the Vitamin A in carrots, three times the potassium in banana, and three fourth the iron in pechay.
Malunggay is a host to many nutrients that are beneficial to the body, Ilaga stressed.
Studies show that every 100 grams of pod contain 2.5 grams protein, 0.1 grams fat, 8.5 grams carbohydrate, 4.8 grams fiber, and minerals such as Calcium (30 milligrams), Phosphorus (110 milligrams), and Iron (5.3 milligrams).
Leaves (per 100 grams) contain 7.5 grams water, 6.7 grams protein, 1.7 g fat, 14.3 g total carbohydrate, 0.9 grams fiber, 2.3 grams ash, and minerals, Calcium (440 mg), Phosphorus (70 mg), Iron (7 mg), Copper (110 ?g) and Vitamin A, and Vitamin C. The leaves also contain different amino acids and estrogenic substances, including the anti-tumor compound, sitosterol, and a pectinesterase.
Water, protein and fiber can be found in the seed kernel (70.74% of seed). The seed oil contains 9.3% palmitic, 7.4% stearic, 8.6% behenic, and 65.7% oleic acids among the fatty acids.
Malunggay contains the phytochemical niaziminin, which is found to have molecular components that can prevent the development of cancer cells, a study undertaken in 1992 discovered, and it is correlated with inhibitory ability against superoxide generation.
The first naturally-occuring thiocarbamates, novel hypotensive agents such as niazinin A, niazinin B, niazimicin and niaziminin A and B were isolated from malunggay, Ilaga stressed.
Malunggay is being used as a too to combat malnutrition among infants and mothers alike. Three international non-government organizations—Trees for Life, Church World Service and Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization—have preached malunggay as the “natural food for the tropics."
Leaves can be eaten fresh, cooked, or stored as dried powder for many months without refrigeration, and reportedly without loss of nutritional value. Moringa is especially promising as a food source in the tropics because the tree is in full leaf at the end of the dry season when other foods are typically scarce, Ilaga said.
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