Breadfruit, the superfood to counter hunger A fruit that is also a bread.īreadfruit, according to an inventor who is the president of Davao Inventors Association, Inc. It can also be made into several other products such as pop adlay, polvoron, and cookies among others.
Another advantage it has for the farmers is that by one plantation, they could make two harvests before they would clear the field again unlike with rice and corn where after the harvest, farmers will have to clear out the field and replant to have another harvest, Salaver explained. It is also a medicinal plant which has higher nutritive value compared to corn and rice, according to the result of the laboratory analysis done by the Crop Science Cluster-Institute of Plant breeding in the University of Philippines-Los Baños, Food and Nutrition Research Institute chemical analysis and the FatSecret All Things Food and Diet.Īdlay was what our ancestors originally consumed for food but it is now being ignored by the people and this is why DA is trying to revive it. The good thing about this crop is that it is cheaper compared to rice and corn because it is only sold for P30 per kilo and it also takes longer time before it spoil after it is cooked compared to the other crops. “It is delicious and soft to eat unlike with corn rice which would end up hard after being cooked,” Salaver said in the vernacular. Five varieties were used by the DA identified as Kiboa, Ginampay,Gulian, Dwarf and Tapol in the experiment and among these, the Kiboa variety performs better in terms of yield in both dry and wet season, according to Salaver. Not all of its variety is edible though since others are hard-shelled which were used in ornamentations like necklace while the ones that can be eaten are soft-shelled. One of the remarkable things that they had come up with was the discovery of Adlay, which, like the rice we are eating today, is a member of the family of grass along with wheat and corn.Īccording to Science Research Specialist 2 Merly Salaver of the DA-RFO Davao Research Division, Adlay was used by some Indigenous groups in Davao City as ornaments because it looked like beads but what they did not know was that in other parts of the country, some IPs used it as their alternative for rice.ĭA Secretary Proceso Alcala directed the entire department to make a program about Adlay after he was intrigued that some IPs in Zamboanga Del Sur used the staple crop instead of rice and corn in one of his visits there, Salaver narrated.
Iloilo results of the experimnet with the vernacular series#
Given the 4,468,563 total number of population in Davao region according to the data from the Philippine Statistics Authority as of based on the 2010 Census of Population and Housing, to feed all the Filipinos remain a challenge with the current scenario that the country is in.Īdlay, the most promising cereal as alternative for rice In an effort to revive the foods used by our ancestors, the Department of Agriculture had conducted series of research and study that leads to the discovery of food items that can be used as alternative for rice. “There is a deficit in rice production because of El Niño,” Leliza said when asked what the main challenges are in rice production. This was the outcome of the reported El Niño that started January until December 11 last year, according to DA Davao Agriculturist 2 Joedell Leliza who bared the data in an interview with Sun.Star Davao. In fact, records from the Department of Agriculture Field Operations Division in Davao Region shows that our rice production in Davao suffered to 6,427.08 metric tons of damages caused by El Niño and a total of 19,253 metric tons loss in production which is equivalent to a total value of P107,904,557.15. And who would have thought too that a mere fruit which is seldom heard by the Filipino masses is actually being considered by many countries as a solution to solve hunger? Rice supply deficit Being in a tropical country such as the Philippines, rice farmers will have to get through all the cost of damages brought about by inevitable typhoons or drought that often devastate the rice fields tilled by our farmers.
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