12th National Biotechnology Week Trade Fair and Bazaar at Quezon Cityhall

The 12th National Biotechnology Week Trade Fair and Bazaar unfolded from November 21 to December 2, 2016 at the Quezon City hall grounds.  Most of the agricultural based companies stay only for just one week , but the other stalls will continue until December 2.

Allied Botanical Corporation booth with Ms. Lian Delos Reyes

Allied Botanical Corporation had interesting new fertilizer brand in the market – They have Nutribella with different kinds of formulation  ( 20-20-20 , 15-15-30 , 30-10-10 )

Condor Seeds

Aside from fertilizer brand Peters and Osmocote , the company also have different kinds of seeds of vegetables, flowering plants, herbs and organic compost .

Area Sales Manager : Ms. Dorie G. Fadriquela  +63939-9910-8924

Website : http://www.alliedbotanical.com/

Harbest Agricultural Corporation had started their operation on July 1997 as importer and distributor for Known-You Seeds Co. products in the Philippines. The company had expanded to include plastic materials like mulching film, seedling tray, irrigation and greenhouse systems, hand tractors, power sprayers, testing tools and others.

For those asking for Calcium nitrate , the company sells them at Php 60.00 per kilo , the calcium is used in orchids , plants and fruit trees . They also sell urea . One can buy them at their store outlet in Pasig City.

Website: http://www.harbest.com.ph/

East West Seed Corporation booth with Mr. Marvin Mercado ( Marketing assistant )  , Julieanne Dique and William Cruz ( Ads and Promo Assistant)

East West Seed Corporation  booth showcases different kinds of seeds and new vegetable hybrids . The company also sells value seed packs.  They have a demonstration farm and their head office is located in San Rafael , Bulacan .

Monsanto was founded in 1901 and one of the top 100  ” Best Corporate Citizens” by CR Magazine.

Address : 1002 AlPAP 2 Building, Trade Avenue, corner Investment Avenue, Madrigal Business Park, Alabang, Muntinlupa, 1780 Metro Manila

Phone: (02) 809 4848

Website : http://www.monsanto.com/

blind masseurs 

There are between 50 to 80 commercial stalls with several agricultural companies , PWD ( People with Disabilities )  and non-government organizations have their stalls at the annual trade fair .

Ms. Shyla Ibañez

This booth sells different products made by Kamza Disabled -The mothers of disabled children and People with Disability are making bags , towels which are sold at the store . They also have Tala Leprosarium – former patients from the leprosarium made beautiful hand crafted reversible dolls and holders.

A purchase of these items would ensure that these people would have sustainable livelihood opportunities.

For those who could not visit the ongoing trade exhibit , The outlet had a stall at the Greenhills Shopping Center , San Juan

Contact : Ms. Shyla Ibañez ( 0909-033-4486)

Husay Pinay (Ms. Arsenia Luna )

Husay Pinay – Uses eco friendly bags made from recycled paper , the group helps women of Quezon City enhances their creativity develop their skills and find livelihood opportunities .

Contact Person : Ms. Adela C. Gaton

0919-203-6471/ 431-66-23

Email :adelagaton@yahoo.com

Tahanan Walang Hagdanan

Website : http://twh.org.ph

Online Store: http://tahanangwalanghagdanan.shopinas.com/

There were at least over a dozen cooperatives and stalls which sells items made by indigent , pwd’s among others . Let us try to patronized their products and have a worth while gifts to our friends , relatives or love ones this Yuletide season.

 

 

 

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Interesting Exhibit Booths at the Agrilink Expo 2016

World Trade Center, Senator Gil Puyat Avenue ( Buendia ) , Pasay City -Philippines

The annual Agrilink Expo 2016 opens their doors to the general public and several hundred of exhibitors from different  agriculture companies were at the World Trade Center to showcase the advancement in their technologies , new plant cultivars , poultry , fisheries , orchids, fruit trees ,  product innovations, home grown products, process foods, plastic ware, machinery  products among others .

World Trade Center 

World Trade Center in Pasay City is the venue place for the largest agriculture , fisheries and livestock event in this part of the Asia.

Allied Botanical Corporation with flowering annuals 

Allied Botanical Corporation with vegetables and fruits

Allied Botanical Corporation with a lot of clients 

new varieties of violet-colored corn 

Aside from flowering annuals , ABC is also known for their quality seeds and fertilizers.

Mr. Yohei Hisashi 

Mr. Yohei Hisashi is from Sakata Seed Corporation from Japan .

L-R Mr. Frisso Klok, Ms. Rowena Bienes, Mr. Gerard Hulisz and Mr. Aldrin Bassit

Salanova – quality lettuce varieties examples are butter, oak, crispy ,batavia and mello

Website : http://consumer.salanova.com/wps/portal/SalanovaGeneral/

Ms. Dorry Fadriquela -NCR Sales Manager 

Contact Person : Ms. Dorry Fadriquela

Area Sales Manager -National Capital Region ‭‭+63 939 910 8924‬‬

Harvest Company

Harvest Company is known for their agriculture implements and greenhouse technology  in July 1997, the company is the exclusive distributor of  Known-You Seeds Co. Through the years, the product product lines have expanded to include plastic materials like mulching film, seedling tray, irrigation and greenhouse systems, hand tractors, power sprayers, testing tools and many more.

King Louis Farm

King Louis Farm exhibit booth never fails to impress any visitor to the expo. The company is one of the largest potted flowering poinsettias , chrysanthemums, lilums and cut flower producer in the country. They have store within Quezon Memorial Circle and Dangwa.

Big Winners of the 70th Annual Orchid and Garden Show

 

Hardin ng mga Bulaklak ( Flower Garden ) Quezon Memorial Circle , Quezon City -Philippines

The winners of the 70th annual orchid and garden show was announced . The landscape competition was divided into 2 categories : Orchid and Ornamental Plants

Here are the set of Winners ( Ornamental )

Architect Bimbo Vergara- Third Place

Architect Bimbo Vergara landscape is an eclectic mixture of cactus , bromeliads ,succulents and old materials such as wood from window panels and cement stones.

Allied Botanical Corporation – Second Place

Allied Botanical Corporation landscape exhibit booth combines different flowering annuals flowering plants like zinnias, sunflowers and petunias . Aside from flowering plants , the company is into vegetables and seeds production and had a demonstration farm in Pangasinan.

There is also a flowering bougainvillea that won first prize.

Address: No. 15, 21st Avenue, Brgy. Tagumpay,Cubao 1109, Quezon City Philippines Email: sales@alliedbotanical.com. Tel. Nos.: +63-2- 911-0836, 63-2-437-6606 to 08
Cell. Nos.: 0917-812-0264; 0922-815-0031; 0922-815-0056
Fax No: +63-2- 911-0159

Website: http://www.alliedbotanical.com/

Mr. Susan and Manuel Lee’s  bonsai garden- First Place

Mr. and Mrs. Susan Lee’s landscape exhibit showcases different bonsai , tillandsias and succulents. The important plants are placed in a stone pedestal made from adobe . The exhibit was done by Mr. Kelvin Niel Manubay .

Ms. Baby Alarcon

Ms. Baby Alarcon exhibit booth uses a lot of bromeliads , ferns and cyad

Ms. Alily Galo

Ms. Alily Galo used several common plants , rare plants like cycad and a small pond  which incorporates water features . Water plants like Kiyapo ( Quiapo ) and water lilies are part of the pond feature. The landscape feature is ideal for small gardens and atrium . She had a plant stall within Quezon Memorial Circle . She is active is selling plants, ornamental plants and even landscaping.

 LYHFRA GARDEN stall#4 quezon city circle 09228457864

Mr. Rene Sumalinog

Mr. Rene Sumalinog used Oncidium orchid hybrids , yellow-flowering Cymbidium orchid hybrids a top a cement vase with bromeliads and variegated ornamental plants. There are also clay jars , white pebbles and square white stone as added landscape accents. He had a stall located within Quezon City Memorial Circle – Milas Garden (0919-9788068)

Ms. Delia Pionela

Del’s Garden incorporated several bromeliads, alcantarea imperialis , neoregelias  , palms and flowering variegated bagawaks ( Clerodendrum quadriloculare ) finishing them with crushed coral stones , cement balls and artificial stones.

Mr. Lino Rom Cacti Collection

Mr. Lino Rom is exhibiting his collection of rare cacti  and succulent collection. The one-man exhibit is similar to the table judging in other countries where orchid and plants are presented in beautiful vases and containers .  Plant societies are slowly adapting the table style presentation.

Ms. Vangie Go

Another magnificent landscape works by Ms. Vangie Go using her own collections of tillandsia, bromeliads

Note : I will be posting more winners of the 70th annual orchid and garden show. Until my next update !

70th Annual Philippine Orchid Society ingress

Flower Garden ( Hardin ng mga Bulaklak ) Quezon Memorial Circle, Quezon City -Philippines

Allied Botanical Corporation booth

The 70th annual Philippine Orchid Society’s show had already started . Ingress had started yesterday and for more than 2 months the society had been preparing for the annual show.

Here are some of the early birds and commercial stalls which started their ingress. The show will open tomorrow for special guests and members who shall witness the societies milestone.

This is just a preview of what is upcoming and judging will commence tomorrow from 8:00am until past 12nn, I do not want to pre-empt the judges . This is just a teaser for those who wanted to come and experience the show.

Try to come as early as possible from February 25 , 2016 and  attend the daily lectures and seminars every 1:00pm to March 7, 2016.

Keep on visiting this blog for more updates ! Until my next post .

 

 

4th Flora Filipina 2015 Expo : An International Flower and Garden Show

The  4TH Flora Filipina Expo on February 26 – March 9, 2015 at the Flower Garden ( Hardin ng mga Bulaklak ) of Quezon City Memorial Circle, Quezon City. Through the leadership of the Philippine Orchid Society (POS), the country’s various garden clubs and the major key players of the ornamental plant industry will convene in this prestigious event at the iconic heart of Quezon City. A special opening for special guests and invited vips will be held on February 25, 2015 at the Flower Garden .

The event aims to boost the morale of the country’s horticultural industry, with the blessings of the Department of Agriculture, Department of Tourism, and the Quezon City government and Quezon Memorial Circle administration. Some of the minor sponsors includes Del Monte, Philippines,  Allied Botanical Corporation – distributor of Peter’s Fertilizer , Department of Science and Technology ( DOST ),Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development (PCCARD)  and Manila Bulletin

The Flora Filipina Expo has become a major Philippine tourism event, and it aims to create awareness among Filipino horticulture enthusiasts and also foreign plant growers about the beauty and value of Philippine plant species. This is also an event wherein inviting foreigners to visit our islands and see our wide collection of flora species.

History Timeline

The  1st Flora Filipina was held in cooperation with Philippine Horticultural Society Incorporated in 2006 at the iconic San Ignacio Church ruins in Intramuros,2nd Flora Filipina 2009 was held at the Sunken Garden beside the Quezon Cityhall,  3rd Flora Filipina was held in 2012 at the Flower Garden ( Hardin ng mga Bulaklak ) , Quezon Memorial Circle .

The Flora Filipina 2015 Expo is proud to have about 90 commercial booths who will be trading to the public selected and rare orchids, ferns, bromeliads, aroids, palms, flowering annuals, hoyas, epiphytes, bonsai, tree seedlings, seeds, including garden accessories, fertilizers, and pesticides.

The event will be having as many as 30 exhibit booths at the flower garden area.

A 2-day Scientific Conference will also be staged at the Great Eastern Hotel, Quezon Avenue, Quezon City on February 26-27, 2015. Topics includes: Taiwan Floriculture & Orchid Industry; Urban Gardening, Cool House Technology for Growing Plant, Ornamental Plant Variety Registration, Import and Export Guidelines, Reclassification of Orchid Genera, Breeding Methods in Floriculture, Potential of Philippine Native Trees for the International Bonsai Market, Edible Ornamental Vegetables, Tillandsia, Terrarium Making, Dish Garden and Flower Arrangement.

Farm Tour

There will be scheduled farm tour on February 28, 2015

Pet Expo

There will also be a pet expo from March 7 and 8 , 2015 – Some of the highlights of the pet expo will be bantam chickens , reptile breeds from all over the world, dogs and cats.

There will also be a free-daily lecture at the exhibit site. With this, the event is expecting more than 25,000 visitors. Foreign delegates and participants from the provinces will be arriving on the last week of February to attend the opening of the event, the conference and the special organized tours.

The Philippines is certainly is a rich plant habitat and is truly an ideal place to grow both tropical and semi-temperate crops. Some of the rare orchid species that can actually be found in the country include the majestic Waling-Waling (Vanda sanderiana), which is the “Queen of the Philippine Orchids,” Vanda luzonica, Phalaenopsis amabilis and other Phalaenopsis species, the Black orchid (Trichoglottis brachiata), various Lady slipper orchids (Paphiopedilum species), just to name a few. This season is the flowering of the Dendrobium anosmum (Sanggumay) and the Butterfly Orchids (Phalaenopsis species and hybrids). For ornamentals, we have the jade vine (Strongylodon macrobotrys), various Alocasia species, an assortment of fern species and allies, Hoya and Discidia vines, palms and cycads, and about 27,000 species more of ornamental plants.

Aside from species, the country can grow and mass produce a lot of introduced or imported ornamental plant hybrids like Euphorbias, Hibiscus, Aglaonema, Alocasia, Cacti, Succulents, and Cattleya orchids. With this, the Philippines certainly has much to offer in terms of diversity of garden plants for trade.

The country has a high potential of mass producing and exporting plants abroad, however, we just need to identify problems in marketing which are causing barriers in the expansion of the Philippine plant trade export industry. With this Flora Filipina event, the organizers hope to unite the local ornamental plant industry, provide technical assistance and market opportunities, and in a larger picture push forth the positive growth of the industry.

For further information about the FLORA FILIPINA EXPO, please contact the Philippine Orchid Society Tel. +(632) 929-4425, mobile +63 09178485468 or visit the website at http://philippineorchidsociety.com or Facebook: philorchidsociety@gmail.com

Office Secretariat : Ms. Jenny Rivera or Mr. Jiffy Alegre

Website links:

DOST -PCCARD : http://www.pcaarrd.dost.gov.ph

Quezon City : http://www.quezoncity.gov.ph/

Del Monte- Philippines  : http://www.delmonte.ph/

Allied Botanical Corporation: http://www.alliedbotanical.com/

Department of Tourism :http://www.tourism.gov.ph

It’s More FUN in the Philippines : http://itsmorefuninthephilippines.com/

Department of Agriculture : http://www.da.gov.ph/

The Great Eastern Hotel : http://www.greateasternhotelmanila.com/

Note” The Flora Filipina Expo site ( Flower Garden )  will have daily lectures and workshop, There is a minimal entrance fees of Php 20 senior citizens and students with valid Id’s and Php 30 general public – This is based on the entrance fees of the orchid show last year .

* Subject to change