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Custom-Made Egg Incubators For Backyard Poultry Raisers

April 15, 2021 Manny Piñol

I, Farm Boy! Custom-Made Egg Incubators For Backyard Poultry Raisers The Braveheart Farms which...

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Raising Boers in Highlands!

April 10, 2021 Manny Piñol

I, Farm Boy! Raising Boers in Highlands! [ytplayer id=52] Late last year, I moved...

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Solving Fruit Cracking: Folk Wisdom & Science

April 8, 2021 Manny Piñol

I, Farm Boy! Solving Fruit Cracking: Folk Wisdom & Science There is an emerging...

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Silage-Making Technology Boosts Livestock Industry

January 20, 2021 Manny Piñol

I, Farm Boy! Silage-Making Technology Boosts Livestock Industry In a feedlot in Glamang, Polomolok,...

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Silage-Making Lecture Series Set In All Mindanao Provinces

January 19, 2021 Manny Piñol

I, Farm Boy! Silage-Making Lecture Series Set In All Mindanao Provinces After the successful...

Manny Piñol

Emmanuel "Manny" Fantin Piñol (born December 16, 1953) is a Filipino journalist, writer, agriculturist, environmental protection advocate and politician. He served as Mayor of M’lang, Cotabato from 1995 to 1998, Governor of Cotabato from 1998 to 2007, Vice Governor from 2007 to 2010, Agriculture Secretary from June 30, 2016 to Aug. 5, 2019 and Chairman of the Mindanao Development Authority from Aug. 6, 2019 to Oct. 5, 2021. He authored the book “Feeding Millions” published in 2015 and introduced innovations in Agriculture such as the digital crop suitability map (www.farmersguidemap.do.gov.ph), the Solar-Powered Irrigation Technology, crafted Road Maps for the different basic crops and helped the Dept. of Agriculture achieve a historic high rice harvest of 19.28-million metric tons in 2017. He also initiated the National Food Consumption Quantification Study conducted by the Food and Agriculture Organization. He is the first and only Filipino Agriculture Secretary to be elected Chairperson of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization biennial conference in Rome from 2017 to 2019. He is now one of the candidates for the Philippine Senate.