By Alexis T. Belonio, Gerry L. Lete, and Severo A. Sotocinal Jr. ABSTRACT The technical and performance evaluations of the local and the imported designs of woodfuel clay stove were conducted at the Appropriate Technology Center, Department of Agricultural Engineering, College of Agriculture, Central Philippine University, Iloilo City from June 6 to 11, 2002. … Read more
By Alexis T. Belonio, Melvin B. Boquiren, Severo A. Sotocinal, and Celsa B. Tumonog ABSTRACT The Appropriate Technology Center, Department of Agricultural Engineering, College of Agriculture, Central Philippine University in collaboration with the SUNLIT International, Inc., has designed and evaluated a vertical-type cassava chipper for chipping cassava roots. This study was conducted from February … Read more
By Alexis T. Belonio, Melvin B. Boquiren and Sanny L. Apuang ABSTRACT Manually-operated electric-coil-heated poultry incubators were designed and evaluated at the Appropriate Technology Center, Department of Agricultural Engineering, College of Agriculture, Central Philippine University, Iloilo City from April 2000 to August 2001. Three different models of the incubator, ECH-500, -100, and -250 which … Read more
By Alexis T. Belonio and Haydee P. Bustamante ABSTRACT A deep water pumping windpump was designed and evaluated for drip irrigation at the Demonstration Area of the College of Agriculture, Mindanao State University, Fatima General Santos City (MSU-GSC). The design development of the windpump was done at the Appropriate Technology Center, Department of Agriculture … Read more
By Alexis T. Belonio and Melvin B. Boquiren ABSTRACT Drying of perishable crops, such as sliced fruits and fish, is a major problem in the Philippines. This is especially true during the wet season where the traditional sun drying practice is difficult to accomplish due to unfavorable weather. Hence, resulting to low product quality … Read more
By Ricardo C. Sumpay, Jr. ABSTRACT The study was conducted from February 26 to June 29, 2007 at Ilongbukid, San Rafael, Iloilo. It determined the efficiency of the different brands of organic fertilizer on the growth of lacatan banana and obtained baseline information for a follow-up study on farmer-researcher partnership on techno-transfer. The experimental … Read more
By Ricardo C. Sumpay ABSTRACT The study was conducted from December 20, 2002 to January 21, 2003 at Jamandre Poultry Farm, Bongco, Pototan, Iloilo to evaluate the evaluate the feeding value of indigenous microorganisms (IMO), fermented fruit juice (FPJ), fish amino acid (FAA), oriental herbal nutrient (OHN), lactic acid serum (LAS) and their combined … Read more
By Ma. Victoria C. Seredrica ABSTRACT Two studies were conducted at CPU campus, Iloilo City from October 2009 to April 2010. The first one compared the effects of IMO 5 (T4), commercial compost (T5) and leaf manures from acacia (Albizia saman) (T1), Ipil-ipil (Leucaena leucocephala) (T2), madre de cacao (Gliricidia sepium) (T3), Inorganic fertilizers … Read more
By Ma. Victoria C. Seredrica and Hope G. Patricio ABSTRACT The three crops were planted at different dates at three weeks interval at the back of the College of Agriculture Building. Lettuce was sown first in August 13 and harvested on October 24, 2007; Cabbage from September 4, 2007 to February 25, 2008; and … Read more
By Aries Roda D. Romallosa ABSTRACT This study was conducted to evaluate the technical and economic performance of the designed briquetting machine that utilizes a hydraulic-type bottle-jack for better compression in producing briquettes. The machine can compact 16 cylindrical (with a hole at the center) briquettes in one pressing or about 200 to 240 … Read more