Farmer makes strawberry thrive in hot climate

[jake]

OCAMPO, Camarines Sur—Leonardo Libreja, 34, defied beliefs when he successfully propagated strawberry here in the lowland of this town thriving in hot climate and bearing fruits sweeter than those found in the Mountain Province.

Commonly, it has always been a belief here that plants thriving in cold climate like strawberry, apple, and tangerine will not thrive in tropical clime like here in this town northeast of Naga City.

With a green thumb and a passion for farming, the agribusiness-graduate Libreja unlocked the secrets of raising strawberry in the yard through experimentation.

Using Hawaiian variety of strawberry that he had brought here after his training in farming at the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources at University of Hawaii Minoa from 2003-2005, it took him seven years to perfect acclimatization of the breed that he is now starting to mass produce.

Librejo explained that acclimatization is the process by which the plant is gradually made to adjust with the weather until it becomes used to it.

http://www.bicolmail.com/2012/?p=7879

[Terpe]

OCAMPO, Camarines Sur—Leonardo Libreja, 34, defied beliefs when he successfully propagated strawberry here in the lowland of this town thriving in hot climate and bearing fruits sweeter than those found in the Mountain Province.

Commonly, it has always been a belief here that plants thriving in cold climate like strawberry, apple, and tangerine will not thrive in tropical clime like here in this town northeast of Naga City.

With a green thumb and a passion for farming, the agribusiness-graduate Libreja unlocked the secrets of raising strawberry in the yard through experimentation.

Using Hawaiian variety of strawberry that he had brought here after his training in farming at the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources at University of Hawaii Minoa from 2003-2005, it took him seven years to perfect acclimatization of the breed that he is now starting to mass produce.

Librejo explained that acclimatization is the process by which the plant is gradually made to adjust with the weather until it becomes used to it.

http://www.bicolmail.com/2012/?p=7879

Very interesting article that
Nice find Jake.

This guy's got a real passion and a good practical approach.
I wish him best of luck for his future success.

[sars_notd_virus]

and I love strawberries

[jake]

Very interesting article that
Nice find Jake.

This guy's got a real passion and a good practical approach.
I wish him best of luck for his future success.

It is nice to see someone with a 'can do' attitude get results.

The local farmers are very set in their ways and trying to convince them to try something new is almost impossible. Hopefully in the next few years i will have more time to experiment like Fred.

A couple of weeks ago i was picking my daughter up from school and she asked me to wait as she wanted to buy a raspberry drink. There was a long queue of teenagers waiting to buy this drink. My automatic thought was another powdered drink full of sugar! To my surprise she came back with a drink made from real raspberries.
Later found out from my wife she used to eat wild raspberries when she was a child and they grew locally.

http://philippinehistory.ph/philippi...se-and-cancer/

[fred]

It is nice to see someone with a 'can do' attitude get results.

The local farmers are very set in their ways and trying to convince them to try something new is almost impossible. Hopefully in the next few years i will have more time to experiment like Fred.

A couple of weeks ago i was picking my daughter up from school and she asked me to wait as she wanted to buy a raspberry drink. There was a long queue of teenagers waiting to buy this drink. My automatic thought was another powdered drink full of sugar! To my surprise she came back with a drink made from real raspberries.
Later found out from my wife she used to eat wild raspberries when she was a child and they grew locally.

http://philippinehistory.ph/philippi...se-and-cancer/

Very interesting.. Lets hope I get to buy some one day and keep the seeds!!