Market Farming

[Sojourner <sojournr AT missouri.org>]

"Lawrence F. London, Jr." wrote:
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 09:15:25 -0800 (PST)
> From: Marcelino Quiminales <quiminmn AT yahoo.com>
> To: dirtfarmer AT sunsite.unc.edu
> Subject: Ginger Farming
> 
> Dear Sir/Madam,
> 
> While browsing the net, I found your address and
> honestly I would like to inquire information about
> Ginger Farming. Hope you could share some insights how
> to cultivate a Ginger, any ginger farm in the
> Philippines that I can contact?
> 
> I'm a contract worker in the middle east and soon I'll
> be retiring home to central Philippines to be united
> with my family. With the small savings I have of which
> I planned to start cultivating a ginger in my small
> farm.

Mellinger's sells edible ginger plants.

http://www.mellingers.com

It would probably be worthwhile to contact them and ask them about
cultivation requirements.  I would think it would grow well in the
Phillipines but I don't know for sure.  If you contact them, make sure
to emphasize that you will be growing it in the Phillipines as most
places in the states it would probably have to be grown in greenhouses.

I don't know how similar the climate in Hawaii might be to the
Phillipines, but that might be another potential source of information
if growing conditions are at all similar.  Soil I'm sure would not be
but temp wise it might be.  Don't know about rainfall either.  You might
try some Hawaii ag sites.

-- 
Holly ;-D
Contrary Peasant
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