In Aurora Province of Philippines we have a variety called hasik an upland rice that can be grown directly on mountain or field with out paddies of water. Its like planting corn. It have bigger grains than rice. It came with 2 color violet and white. I also observe that in comparison to normal rice it is heavier and more filling in the stomach. In addition it had a more fragrant and enticing aroma.
@@robertlee6338 what variety of rice is high in nutrition? most of these native highland varities is grown organically and nutrious, it is not considered low low but the problem is, it is difficult to harvest,mostly done harvesting it per stalk
In our province in the Philippines My Grandparents used to grow native rice in their mountain side farm I remember it was a fragrant variety it tasted better than all the imported rice flooding the Philippine markets now.. I'm based here the capital city, this film reminded me of all the organic produce we used to eat back home 😢
sadly this kind of things happened all around the world. a lot of taste got lost because farmers needed to produce more, disease resistant, transportable crops. it is sad tbh. probably necessary but sad.
Sorghum was grown extensively in the Central Texas region of Texas where my farming grandparents lived. That region has long had very hot summers, variable and rarely predictable rainfall. The grain was used as human and animal feed, the stalks were pressed and the juice was boiled down to a syrup, similar to, a light molasses. This was in the 1940’s and 50’s.
Sorghum is so tasty and useful. The flour is slightly sweet and useful for gluten-free recipes, including (how I use it) pancake batter and a grain for tebouleh. So glad to see it returning to importance. I actually raised enough to test for recipes back in the 80s in Michigan. It was so easy to grow!
It's the only grain I've seen growing by itself (wild) next to the road in the Chihuahuan Desert. An amazing grain, it is mostly used to feed chickens and pigs but I have tried it as "popcorn" only.
Nice documentary... Vandana shiva is an activist in India... She also promote traditional variety of crops... And as a farmer I have started practice... ❤😊
It is so uplifting to see that there are people like Maria in this world taking responsibility for improving conditions on the planet. Thank you to you all. You are the true heroes!
Lol...much heirloom was kept in ceramic jars in deserts and places like armenia o Romania has some great old stuff....they never stopped cultivating ancient peppers 🌶 Also the pyramids had Many beams n 🌽 corn And others grains STILL VIABLE.😊TUT HAD LOTSA STUFF
Thank you for featuring local grains in this program. Authorities should encourage farmers to grow local grains and preserve local seeds and grains in view of future food security of the people. High yielding commercial varieties are good for income. Having a genetic pool of native grains could help a community to be more resilient in food security during time of climatic upheavals.
My late Okinawan grandmother had a business and grew millet on a tiny island off Okinawa. Ppl from mainland Okinawa would come to buy pkgs and cases of her millet. Some Japanese mainlanders would pay $$$ to have her millet shipped out. In Okinawa, millet used to symbolize an abundance of harvest. One millet plant can bear 3,000 seeds. After this, each of those 3,000 seeds can bear 3,000 more. In Japanese, we have a word for this, ichiryu-manbai (粒万倍). It means “a single seed can eventually produce a great harvest.” When people grew millet and grains, they didn’t need to scramble for food. Scrambling causes conflict, but in the absence of scrambling there was peace. For this reason, people really appreciated millet and served it to the gods as an expression of gratitude. But now that millet is gone from our culture, even the culture of prayer, that heart of giving and serving the gods, is gone as well. We call it spirit food. Let’s bring back the spirit food so that we don’t lose that spirit in our culture as well.
Food diversity is a good thing. Amaranth is a good grain, no gluten. I grow a wide variety of plants on my five acres. For me moringa is the most nutritionally dense. Sweet potatoes and pumpkins also do well here.
This is also happening in Europe, we are returning to traditional varieties of wheat that suit the landscape better than 'modern wheat' and in England we are returning to eating fava beans that are our native bean but haven't been widely eaten for hundreds of years.
My ancestors from Great Britain came on the Mayflower as Pilgrims. Doing my DNA, I have more genetic similarities to the old world Great Brittain than likely most Americans. I am interracial too - Scottish Cherokee when the Scots married Cherokee women in the Colonies. My mother is a Colonial descendant. My father is half Scots Irish Cherokee and Ilocano (one of the ancient tribes of the Philippines). I am so food sensitive. I am allergic to gluten, actual allergy on allergy tests. White rice which I ate all my life, I stopped being able to digest. I have Nordic mtDNA. So I will drink milk a lot when I cannot drink digest food. I ferment anything's g I can - yogurt, kefir, fermented vegetables. I cannot eat the so called average American diet. Fast food makes me feel ill. We never ate that when I grew up on the 70s. But even in 80s as a young adult, I noticed store bought foods made me feel sick to my stomach. I think the earth is responding like my digestive system. All the chemicals kill living organisms. We just reached the end of chemical based foods and agriculture.
Sorghum, finger millets and pearl millets have been growing in Indian villages for 100's of years and our great grand parents lived on a simple diet of flat breads made of these grains as some vegetables. They easily lived close to a 100 years without any lifestyle diseases. Then somewhere down the line wheat and rice took over and we forgot about these an isn't grains. Glad it's coming back. India is celebrating these old grains once again and we are celebrating 2023 as year of Millets. Millets are a powerhouse of nutrients, gluten free and nutritious.
@@sangeetharajkumar1357 That would have happened with or without the British by this point if we're being honest. You need to stop blaming colonization for everything that time is over. Too much globalization is the new enemy and it's put in place by your own government not by any colonizer.
Only Sorghum is indigenous Indonesia. Corn, Peanut's, Chilli came from the Americas less than 500 years ago during the Columbian exchange & Rice came from India or China. Did you know that we have preserved most worlds grains in a big vault in Norway i saw a documentary on it and recommend it 👍🏼🙂
@@PureVikingPowershowever the melting of the northern climates still create a need for more than storage. We need more farmers farming future foods as the climate is changing quickly.
Waktu saya kecil dahulu tahun 80s sampai 90s saya pernah baca buku pelajaran sekolah bahwa Philippine mempunyai institusi (saya lupa namanya) yang mengembangkan varietas padi yang baik, bagus dan bahkan sempat dieksport varietas bibit tersebut ke indonesia, ternyata setelah saya menonton film ini, hal tersebut juga yang mengakibatkan hilangnya varietas kuno yang pernah diproduksi di Philippine itu sendiri....ternyata masalah Indonesia dan Philippine sama, banyak kegagalan yang disebabkan pangan utama yang hanya berdasarkan satu jenis saja, akibat dari hal tersebut membuat pangan tersebut menjadi mahal dikarenakan permintaan berlebih tapi produksi berkurang atau tak berkembang karena banyak masalah (salah satunya seperti yang disebutkan pd film diatas), sehingga akhirnya import menjadi solusi dan mengancam ketahanan pangan nasional
Ga cuma Indonesia Filipina, tapi hal begitu banyak juga di belahan bumi lain... Monoculture atau pembiakan satu jenis (baik tumbuhan atau hewan) bisa bikin varietas lain punah
@@jdcandres IRRI always mentioned in my school books back then, is IRRI change its name right now in Philippine? Or the purpose change because of monoculture?
This video was just wholesome from start to end. Discussing the two countries, one that I live in (Indonesia) another is a country with many similarities and some diversities that I appreciate. Talking about different regions in Indonesia was also a good way to discuss the issue from different aspects and also recognize some of the efforts have been implemented.
Another forgotten crop of Indonesia is millet. Millet or the Javanese called it "jewawut" is used to be the staple for ancient Javanese. Rice is something that is reserved for the elite (hence the polite form of rice in Javanese is sekul not sego). That's why the Javanese word "sego" originally means "any kind of cooked grains" changed its meaning into "cooked rice" The same can be said for my people, the Sundanese. Ancient Sundanese eats sweet potato as the primary source of carbohydrates. That is until the contact with Javanese increased during the Mataram Sultanate period and the sultanate introduced rice farming to the Sundanese. The Sundanese word "sangu" originally means "mashed sweet potato" and just like the Javanese, the meaning changed to "cooked rice".
@@agailham8476 ubi sudah menjadi makanan pokok suku2 kepulauan di Pasifik jauh sebelum penjajahan Spanyol. Mengingat kita ini masih saudara jauh sama orang2 Polinesia kemungkinan kita sudah kenal lebih dulu.
@@ernaherlina8014 Ubi (umbi) kan gak merujuk ke tanaman tertentu kak, tapi emang ke tanaman konsumsi yang diambil dari bawah tanah. Kita ada ubi lokal sebelum Pelayaran Columbus seperti talas/keladi (taro) atau gembili (lesser yam). Dan ubi jenis ini yang jadi makanan pokok sebelum populernya beras. Tapi kalau bicara sweet potato, ini tanaman aslinya dari Amerika Selatan dan baru menyebar setelah Pelayaran Columbus (begitu juga singkong). Makanya agak rancu kalau dulu makanan pokoknya adalah sweet potato, sementara aslinya sweet potato masih jadi makanan "kekinian".
Sangu di Jawa artinya bekal / perbekalan, bisa makanan, materi, juga amalan. Kalau kegiatan memasak nasi ada lagi bahasa Jawa-nya, "adang". Mencuci beras, disebut " mususi", dll yang masih banyak lagi sebutan²nya secara spesifik sesuai sifat dan fungsi.
Our ancestors frequently ate root crops. In our Barangay, in the Philippines where Japanese set up their own abaca farms. Mashed Cocoyam/Yautia/Lutya/Karlang Xanthosoma sagittifolium was used as a carbohydrate source alternate to rice. Rice was very expensive and workers had to save their wages. They mixed coconut milk with boiled mashed tubers of this plant. I've tried eating boiled cocoyam for one month harvesting what's already in our farm. It's good, I was kind of disgusted with rice after eating cocoyam for a month haha.
Hi. My ancestors are from the Northern Luzon, actually on the Sea of China, Western coast. Which area do you mean? I am born in California. My grandfather immigrated to US as an immigrant farm worker. I grow my own food like I was taught in childhood. What kind of root crops do you mean?
yes! my father said he didnt eat rice as a boy. he ate sweet potatoes ! i was so surprised my dad grew up w food scarcity. he hates sweet potatoes as an adult.
i dont eat rice anymore... i try to grow my own food as an indonesian young farmer i think i will try sorgum here/// with el nino occuring we havent got any rain since april here nice documentary
@@Dhruv_Dogra its expensive becuz of middle men. We cant process in small mills. You guys want millets to look like rice. So big mills buy it from us at cheap price and the remove husk, over Polish it and sell you in attractive packages at high prices. Also yield of millets is very less than rice & wheat. Its mostly grown in rainfed lands this year in my state we didn't plant fox tailmillet and pearl millet as we have drought like condition due to climate change So near year the price will double.
we do have sorghum farm but only for personal use. its true its drought resistant but not so much flood and storm resistant. its also consumes lots of space compare to rice. so it will take a lot of support and initiative before philippines can accept it
To each their own. Sorghum is suitable for dry arid areas. The wet stormy floody areas of the Philippines would be able to nurture many local varieties of flood resistant rice.
It's hard to believe what you're saying, or maybe it's weird that I don't agree with you. I am a Hiligaynon speaker, born and raised in a Hiligaynon-speaking province. While I can see some similarities in words, they are very few. So, I'm not so sure about the type of Hiligaynon that you speak.
@@freeman2659 I was born and raised in Bacolod and Pontevedra. I understood Kinaray-a as well and Cebuano. I don’t know maybe because I combined most of the words she says to what I heard from other Filipino languages I know like kapampangan and Ilokano.
Philippines/Indonesia need to explore major and minor millets varieties since these r far more climate resilient and healthy than rice along with less water consuming just like sorghum
I'm from the Philippines my Father told me once that when he was young they use to plant a type of grain that is cheeper than rice that is used to create flour but little by little it disappears and that no one has been planting it ever since
During long droughts, my grandma once said the best source of food are root crops. Its grows well and in abundance during dry spell. Only after the japanese invasion that rice become a staple commodity.
In those horrible famines of Bengal ( right around WW2 , caused by Churchill and his government) , people survived off root crops , yams , taro roots , elephant foot, the leaves of the said plants and some other leafy greens . Bengal has always been a rice eating region though ... But those root veggies also have been a staple with rice amongst the poor people.
@@subratanandy2142what type of root crops? I am American but also my grandfather immigrated to US as a fam worker from the Luzon in the Philippines. He grew and taught me to grow food so I do now. But he never grew a root crop. I never heard of that. What is it called?
I was very impressed by this video and all the information. I am going out and buy sorghum and start making it at home. This was a very informative video should be available to all countries and should be taught in all the schools.
Sorghum has been a global crop for millenia. Many varieties of sorghum have been planted in America for centuries- both for the grains and and to press to make molasses.
Study of the Ancient Grains is one of the important things in the world of Research and Extensions. I hope Agricultural Universities focus on these Studies about Ancient Grains
Great video but I think you've got a factual inaccuracy, the Masagana 99 policy did not involve GMO rice. The IR8 high-yielding semi dwarf rice variety was developed using conventional cross-breeding techniques. Hybrids are not GMOs. GMO rice wasn't invented until around 2000 and it still has not achieved widespread commercial use.
I really enjoyed this video! I was so happy to see farmers moving away from GMO monoculture crops that need pesticides and unsustainable irrigation and towards crops that have time proven adaptability to climate challenges. Thanks to people like that lady who used to be a lawyer, she is helping the farmers help themselves to transition to farming practices that will see them through whatever the weather can throw at them. Thank you so much for making this video and sharing it with us!! ✌🏼💖
There are so many amazing plants out there. Despite the way it is going, this world is kind of amazing when it comes to plants. And I find grains to be extremely interesting. I'm learning more and more about them, especially pseudocereals. Like Celosia. I've seen that plant growing in so many gardens as a decorative flower but it turns out that is a staple leafy green and grain in parts of Africa and Asia.
Wow, I had no idea. You're right, here in the states it's an annual ornamental plant that's always available to buy in most garden centers. I will grow it next year and try the leaves.
Also consider growing amaranth, it can both be left to seed, and that grain is just as much a superfood as quinoa, ... or the young plants can be harvested as a great green vegetable. various names for it: 莧菜, dền đỏ, mchicha, kulitis, efo tete, callaloo, ... some western markets ridiculously label it as "chinese spinach". i add 3 color amaranth to my rice along with other grains (quinoa, millet, buckwheat, sorghum, pearl barley, fonio, unhusked rice, ...) when i make plain rice, and i use amaranth greens in simple soups.
In visayas and mindanao mountains in the philippines most people I know eat corn as staple instead of rice. Now sorghum is new to me and I saw it being advertised by visayan sellers as animal feed but I want to eat and plant it on my farm.
My grandparents used to eat sorghum when I was small. We even give sorghum to babies as first food. It's good for diabetes. Its better than rice , corn ,oats and quinoa.
Excelente trabalho! Acalma nosso coração ❤ ver tantas comunidades nesses tipos de projetos de revitalização de sementes indígenas, espero que a mensagem se espalhe e continue a crescer. Muito obrigada ❣🙏👏💖
Viva, Ana Maria. Cai de paraqueda neste site. Como esta em ingles, nao consegui perceber tudo. Temos alguma forma de ve-lo traduzido? Ou conseguimos outros documentaries similares?❤❤
Nakakagalak mayroon palang mg mabuting binhi. Maraming salamat po. I'm excited to know about this. May I know where and how to acquire these seeds? Thank you so very much.
Very good initiative. I am proud to know about this. Good to know we are bringing back this kind of farming and such food. Thank you for featuring this CNA.
Off-topic... The Indonesians here really sounded a lot like people from the Visayan regions. Anyway. This is really awesome. I have a lot of rice varieties that I've eaten when I was young that I have never seen again since. I'm hoping to see them in the market soon.
Interesting comment there about corporations entering things tend to mess things up for the local. The problem is in the management of agriculture industrialization, land taxation system, and demand for modernity. One of these could mess up livelihood for community.
Hemp seed was one of the easiest to grow thresh and store and most nutritional important grains they grew in Asia. Did you mention it? Highest protein of any grain too.
I totally agree about going back to planting ancient grains, rice, and other foods that grew well on all the different Asian Islands. But what about also helping the farmers set up made water catchment cisterns at the top of some of the mountainous regions that have poor topsoil that has washed away? The large water cisterns catch most of the water as much as possible, then try and terrace the rocky limestone mountain side, building natural raised bed walls to slow the other rain fall water that is caught in the cistern on top the mountain, and teach them how to make mulch turned into compost soil to fill the rocky terrace raised beds with compost that is layered on top of sand dredged off the ocean coast lines of all the Islands. Using modern ideas to recreate as much of what already natural materials as possible. Recreate topsoil from old crops by mulching the stalks of plants after harvest, mix with shredded cardboard boxes, old newspapers, wood sawdust from mills, mixing them and and end of harvest designate an area on the farm as staging area to make compost of the green and brown materials and animal manure making their own topsoil to regrow crops. And to speed up the heating process Add in a few dead uncooked meat chickens, that may have died, or clumps of the herb comfrey is another catalyst then once there is a 4-5-foot pile of thoroughly mixed decaying matter cover it with a tarp, let it set for a day or two, take a pitchfork and remove the dry material and start a new pile finishing it again to a 5 foot pile of all the inner wet material has been rotated to the outside. Cover it again with tarp and within 14-21 days there is a rich biomaterial for growing next year's crops.
I wish the people that had this kind of knowledge were more easily able to travel to these places and help teach others. I think a wider use of these techniques could change the world.
Please can u make the subtitles larger so they can be seen on screen. I've never come across such small subtitles on a video before and they rob the video of much of its useful content.
This is heartbreaking, heart warming, and inspiring. Heartbreaking that it has come to this. That people all over the world have lost what has sustained us for hundreds of years. An effect of globalization. Its heartwarming that people like Maria are bringing their community up in ways that will forever change the population. Its inspiring how populations of people are teaching, learning, and enthusiastic about being more in tune to nature and therefore thriving better in it.
Sorghum is the local crop in north China for a millennium during to low rainfall. The northern Chinese uses it as the staple food source. Because of its food is hard, it was replaced the wheat flours that can be made into various varieties of bread suitable for the people. Sorghum is less used, but some farmers milled it into sorghum floor, baked, dried it and can be kept as meals for a long times. It is the styles of Tibetan culture for milling the millets baked and dried it with cheese and can be eaten readily for the herders, who carried them along in case the hey met sudden chilled storm and could not return to the village. As for sorghum, it is considered as hard grain for the people now and are used for animals feed where it can grow abundantly in the northern dry region. They do not subject to wet water crops
Rice planting long time ago in Philippines they used native plants that are highly nutrition and rich in vitamins, but now because of global warming native rice plants cannot survive, and our department of agriculture scientist discovered a new breed of rice that can survive in super hot and dry season and can survive in floods
i'm actually amazed to know that there are still wild rice out there ready to be rediscovered. what i'm amazed at is that they didn't completely disappear even if no one cultivates them. they just grew in the wild on their own.
Sorghum was an important crop here in the US, perhaps it will be again. My bird seed mix has "milo", which is sorghum, and it was scattered underneath my birdfeeder this year, and grew big, beautiful plants, heavy with seed. I found out that many birds eat it, including white wing doves.
Sumber pangan yang cocok bagi Indonesia, adalah sukun, dibawahnya talas, di pantainya yg luas adalah sagu, yang bisa dibuat bihun, itulah makanan nenek moyang kita, sebelum datang padi dari India beserta budayanya
I would like to take this time to say, thank you for creating a very great documentary. As a south east asian. Thank you. This is what contents should be... Love you guys...
Indonesia is so many island and different many ethnic and many language , so that is not easy to do development. Not just like whole land than easy to build them development. So I thinking Indonesia is great amazing land , amazing country very beutiful. To the west is Indian ocean and to the east is Pacific ocean , so many archipelago island of Indonesian.
I like how Indonesia made Listrik Pintar and spent 3 billion dollars on it but never actually subsidized solar panels for customers who can put it on their roofs. And when you actually buy your own solar panels by yourself PLN will fine you and bring you to court. Are you sure PLN is a BUMN (a non profit government body)?
In the Southern Philippines there is a rice variety that grows as tall as 6 feet on dry soil like corn grown during the rainy season. When I came back last year, that rice variety locally called "Zambales" is only grown by a handful of farmers to the inlands. Sorghum now is just being reintroduced into the Philippines.
before the spanish millet in luzon was apparently more prevelent and used so much that 'dawa-dawa' (dawa meaning millet) came to mean any "millet-like" grain.
In the past, the Philippines was the frontier when it came to rice. I was shocked to know that we've 4k varieties as of record. The stupidity of our government until now never ceased to amaze me. Our country should be developed as an agricultural nation but instead, they like to build more infrastructure. smh I wonder if sand and cement can be eaten. lol
@@cjnem7243 we need but not that important. I live in the province and there was no concrete road before but my family can deliver the goods to the market. lol build build build is good but not that important to an agricultural nation. we need to invest in the latest farming technologies and ideas. also, the real estate industry is destroying the agricultural industry. I hope this bubble bursts like what is happening abroad. even I as an architect fking hate it! you build these condos and subdivisions but the ones who benefit from them are the expats and those who can afford them. smh
*SO **_VERY_** HAPPY to stumble on your Channel! GOOD ON Y'ALL for saving these ancient & SO VALUABLE FOODSTUFFS! ALSO, FOR RETURNING TO THE ORGANIC PATH!* *You have made this old woman VERY, VERY HAPPY; THIS IS THE HIGHLIGHT OF MY MONTH!*
He knows his own language, a very good speaker . I know because I speak it too and I admire him for that. Thank you for liking our language. I wish my countrymen see it the way you do. Unfortunately, a lot of us would rather include a lot of English words lest we be mistaken as someone lacking in intelligence. A lot of times I'm confused that I ask myself when hearing someone speaking in my language: Is he talking in English but not knowing much of English or is he talking in Tagalog but not knowing much of Tagalog? Here is another of the Philippine identity crisis: A lot of us think that Tagalog is so near to the Spanish language and they tickle with glee when hearing that Tagalog is so close to Spanish, a sign that they are honoring their former masters
- Fun fact ;; Sorghum originated in South Africa. Not sure how it ended up in Asia though. 🤔 The first sorghum arrived in The U.S. with ships transporting enslaved Africans in early 17th century. They used the grains for bread && puddings, as a pulled candy, an early type of taffy, chicken feed, && the inedible fiber, for brooms for cleaning.
Nowadays, ricefields are turning into subdivisions because of lack of support from the government. Farmers end up in selling their land because rice cartel buy their rice at a low price and they are buried into debts. Philippines farmers are industrious but they are the poorest. Thanks to corruption in the Government!
Same in Indo... I watched a RU-vid video about Pemulung, ppl who's life work is to scavenge landfills, and some of them used to be rice farmers. In Indo sorghum is called Betari
When my community here in central Mexico was more rural,back in the 60s and 70s, farmers not only grew the original corn, but also sorghum, but the sorghum was destined for animal feed, after reading comments from others, I realize we've been duped, especially after a friend in NC, USA prefers sorghum syrup to other natural sweeteners. With so many rice varieties in se Asia, The Philippines and Indonesia, it is only right for farmers there to return and maintain the native grains, varieties of rice, as it is important for us here in Cem Anáhuac(Americas)to maintain the native corns, the Hopi corn that grows short but adapted to the arid Arizona climate to the diverse corn species of south central Mexico and of course the Choclo species of Peru and Bolivia.
When I was San Jose city a few years ago I saw a poster encouraging families to have no more than 3 children because of the need to import rice. I told a city worker abouth "carrying capacity of the land". Meaning that a certain size or area of land can only support a certain number of people. I think one of the best thing that a nation such as the Philippines is not to too many children.
I can't eat grains anymore because of my Hashimoto's, but it's good to hear that there are these projects going on. Variety is the spice of life so they say. If only more farmers in the west would get the message, there are some but nearly enough.
00:02 in Bali we call it jali-jali, we rarely use it as food now, and in my childhood i use it as toy to create necklace, though our parents still have memory of jali-jali as porridge. and it can easily grows in my yard without maintenance.
Sorghum is not native here in asia. It's originally from Africa. There are few farms here in Philippines and I love the lagkit version of sorghum, it smell so good compared to traditional lagkit rice
I don't know where to get them. Are the grains being sold online viable or are those already sterilized? I'm interested in foxtail millet. Heard it was the grain of choice before people started farming rice
@@TaLeng2023Millets are entirely grown for food unlike sorghum. So it would be better to find what's specified as seeds. I don't know how it works in your country, but we usually buy seeds from reputed or government agricultural offices. Seeds from online is very unreliable and might even be too old. Or better yet, find people who grow it.
this is so eye opening. only in modern society has asians eaten all their food w wheat noodles and white rice. now as a nurse i dont eat much white rice and not every day. white rice will spike blood sugars because it lacks nutrition from being overly processed. I also found it shocking that my father said when he was young and poor they ate tubers and not rice. rice was for well to do people. I hope i can learn about nutritious grains now! i will explore! thank you so much for this research!!
I dunno what we had in the Philippines prior to rice but having a variety of grains would be good for security. Would buckwheat grow in SEA? Also interested in grain amaranth but can't find anyone selling legit seeds.
cadena de amor, the flower famous for being prolific in cemeteries, is actually a member of the family buckwheat belongs to (which is called polygonaceae) so im pretty sure some varieties of buckwheat can be farmed in here with the right practices
Di Sumba, Indonesia banyak varietas padi lokal yang sudah punah, mulai dari beras berah, padi wangi, dll. Padi local sangat tahan terhadap hama, bahkan hamanya hanya 3, walang sangit, hama putih palsu dan satu lagi gak tahu namanya. Umurnya panjang dan tinggi, itu kelemahannya. Walaupun demikian sangat tahan terhadap kekeringan. Waktu itu petani sawah tadah hujan bisa panen hingga bulan Agustus, padahal hujan sudah berhenti bulan Mei. Saat ini varietas padi baru yg terkenal umur pendek tidak ada yg tahan kekeringan. Paling lambat panen bulan Mei
Some 20 years ago, I had a dream that I was being taken to old rice paddies that were growing grubs. These grubs were whitish. They showed me a dish of food made with those grubs. It looked like rice noodles, the thick ones. They explained why they were doing this for food. My ancestors, grandfather and his father immigrated to US as Farm Workers over 100 years ago. So, my grandparents taught me to grow my own food in California. My Ilocano grandfather and his ancestors came from the Luzon. I grow food, a food forrest in my front and back yard. My grandfather began teaching me to garden at age two. I followed him around and he explained everything he did to me for years until I understood. I see the toung generations need to learn too.
As a child my parents and the entire community had an amazing variety of beans. There was even one we called the "bean with a smell" and they were all delicious. Most very smaller and didn't produce much. When a variety of bean arrived that was bigger and produced more, the other varieties were abandoned. I'm not even sure if anyone still has any of those varieties.
I am thankful to these farmers who are looking for solutions and working hand in hand with what mother nature gave them and what they can do to have a fruitful life using those gifts. I am sure it is not easy because farming is back breaking tasks just for the rest to be fed. Thanks for the hard work ma'ams and sirs.
I remember when my grandma used to make toasted pinipig with sugar as a snack for us that was 20 years ago I miss that snack now that she's gone no one is making it.
Its harmless but still deceptive to say Philippines are the largest food importers in Asia. They are also a huge exporter. They are the salad and fruit bowl for China, Korea and Japan. They export high value fruits and vegetables then import their bulk grain needs which also feed their poultry and meat consumption. It doesn't take many Durians to get enough money back for a nice chicken and rice dinner. China is forced to mainly rely on seafood for protein needs.
i have traveled to Mindanao Philippines back when i was working with an oil company selling aviation fuel, they have this type of rice which grows in the steep mountains an upland rice which doesnt need irrigation, it quite hard when eating than normal rice, but its heavy on the stomach.
