Sunday, September 23, 2007
prayers for dante
mga padi let's all pray for dante's success in his bar exams. he's on the second exams today.
Friday, September 14, 2007
we can go coco
I just came from Romblon last 9/11 where I was invited by DTI to talk about dairy as part of their One Town, One Product (OTOP) activities. It happened that Dr. Justino Arboleda (or simply dr. Bo) was the other speaker on the coconut coir business. Though the surname may tell you that he comes from way up north he is actually a bicolano from guinobatan, a retired dean of the bicol university college of agriculture. He is an agricultural engineer by profession and studied at Tokyo University where he earned all his degrees, from his bachelor's up to his doctorate. In 1994 he set up JUBOKEN in guinobatan and specialized in exporting coconut coir.
He eventually realized that there is a huge world demand for coco coir that he then set up coco technologies corporation that uses coco net to stabilize slopes, prevent erosion and other soil projects. Another factor of his present success is memorandum circular #25 that instructs dpwh to use coco nets to stabilize soil in its projects. Among the countries that require an abundant supply of coco coir are china, japan, europe and usa. I consulted the statistics on coco coir exports at dti and everything checked out fine.
His company have already won all sorts of awards, from the BBC World Challenge 2005 to the Golden Shell.
He is so desperate about the supply of coir that he went as far as mindanao to secure supply agreements. He is even willing to partner with anyone who is willing and offers help for the needed equipment.
He estimates that in order to produce 1kg of coir and the accompanying 2kg of dust, a coir plant only needs to spend P6 in operating cost. If delivered to his plant in quezon city he is willing to pay P9/kg coir and we could sell the dust at P3/kg. That's a per unit sale of P15. He is willing to talk to us if we can provide some 18T/month. You can check out his site http://cocogreen.net/homepage.htm
Remember: coconut husks are farm wastes that are either burned or just thrown away. Tell, email me at glagamayo@yahoo.com or text (get my number from jet, dont post numbers here).
He eventually realized that there is a huge world demand for coco coir that he then set up coco technologies corporation that uses coco net to stabilize slopes, prevent erosion and other soil projects. Another factor of his present success is memorandum circular #25 that instructs dpwh to use coco nets to stabilize soil in its projects. Among the countries that require an abundant supply of coco coir are china, japan, europe and usa. I consulted the statistics on coco coir exports at dti and everything checked out fine.
His company have already won all sorts of awards, from the BBC World Challenge 2005 to the Golden Shell.
He is so desperate about the supply of coir that he went as far as mindanao to secure supply agreements. He is even willing to partner with anyone who is willing and offers help for the needed equipment.
He estimates that in order to produce 1kg of coir and the accompanying 2kg of dust, a coir plant only needs to spend P6 in operating cost. If delivered to his plant in quezon city he is willing to pay P9/kg coir and we could sell the dust at P3/kg. That's a per unit sale of P15. He is willing to talk to us if we can provide some 18T/month. You can check out his site http://cocogreen.net/homepage.htm
Remember: coconut husks are farm wastes that are either burned or just thrown away. Tell, email me at glagamayo@yahoo.com or text (get my number from jet, dont post numbers here).
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Monday, September 10, 2007
Kumusta mga padi
kabudlay didi ha. harain na tabi kamo. any updates and pix and stories?
ito mga diyot na news:
Junie has left his previous job at the Gubat LGU and is currently working part-time in an HR Consultancy founded by the current HR Director of Aquinas. he says it may become a long term gig for him.
Dante is deep in review mode for the forthcoming bar exams. do pray for his success in the exams. pangadyi ta na top 10 sya.
Jet is busy with work and book design gigs, CCNA course and bugski
Sanni is doing well in florida, you can see pix of his family at the batch87 blog. do wait for his promised postings here.
Rino is ultra busy with his GK work and cellphones
Gabby is still with the dairy board and drops by here every now and then. i would just liek to remind the other ninongs na damo-damo na an utang ta na regalo sa batit niya. hehehe
Mervs, still drops by here from time to time and might send some more pixs this week
Gojie, is now a nurse and wants to get married next year
Kit's problem is now resolved.
Yayes is still drafting his wonderful reflections, which he will post here. SOON!!! also apart from being a devoted family man, he's currently a newspaper editor, teacher and law student. hanep sa hataw. sya an pan-tolo na lawyer ta
Peewee will celebrate his birthday this coming wednesday. but japayuki anay siya ngunyan. invited na magkasal didto. ingat sa mga ninja dyan Padi ha, basi ma-shuriken ka
Collins is still in iloilo and too shy to post his amazing pictures
Cando is still saving up gas slips for our road trip hehehe
Dave was supposed to become the new municipal agricultural officer of sorsogon
Franz was online a minute ago
Erwin has set-up his ice plant
Tyrone is in cebu
Tivo is still in naga, waiting for my dvds hehe
Nono is in sorsogon
And so is rene
and henri who seldom visits this site (sabi ni junie) and yayes says he might go back to teaching soon
Jason is somewhere
and also moonvale
and wiron too
and maybe sherman and victor and BJ
Dino and Lorbes meanwhile are still out there, waiting to be found
Lastly, mga padi, let's give our full support to dante, magbar exams na siya beginning this sunday (four sundays daw iyon). kitakits kita this coming sunday sa lasalle taft
ito mga diyot na news:
Junie has left his previous job at the Gubat LGU and is currently working part-time in an HR Consultancy founded by the current HR Director of Aquinas. he says it may become a long term gig for him.
Dante is deep in review mode for the forthcoming bar exams. do pray for his success in the exams. pangadyi ta na top 10 sya.
Jet is busy with work and book design gigs, CCNA course and bugski
Sanni is doing well in florida, you can see pix of his family at the batch87 blog. do wait for his promised postings here.
Rino is ultra busy with his GK work and cellphones
Gabby is still with the dairy board and drops by here every now and then. i would just liek to remind the other ninongs na damo-damo na an utang ta na regalo sa batit niya. hehehe
Mervs, still drops by here from time to time and might send some more pixs this week
Gojie, is now a nurse and wants to get married next year
Kit's problem is now resolved.
Yayes is still drafting his wonderful reflections, which he will post here. SOON!!! also apart from being a devoted family man, he's currently a newspaper editor, teacher and law student. hanep sa hataw. sya an pan-tolo na lawyer ta
Peewee will celebrate his birthday this coming wednesday. but japayuki anay siya ngunyan. invited na magkasal didto. ingat sa mga ninja dyan Padi ha, basi ma-shuriken ka
Collins is still in iloilo and too shy to post his amazing pictures
Cando is still saving up gas slips for our road trip hehehe
Dave was supposed to become the new municipal agricultural officer of sorsogon
Franz was online a minute ago
Erwin has set-up his ice plant
Tyrone is in cebu
Tivo is still in naga, waiting for my dvds hehe
Nono is in sorsogon
And so is rene
and henri who seldom visits this site (sabi ni junie) and yayes says he might go back to teaching soon
Jason is somewhere
and also moonvale
and wiron too
and maybe sherman and victor and BJ
Dino and Lorbes meanwhile are still out there, waiting to be found
Lastly, mga padi, let's give our full support to dante, magbar exams na siya beginning this sunday (four sundays daw iyon). kitakits kita this coming sunday sa lasalle taft
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