Seeing the importance of malunggay, Senator Loren Legarda pushed for the production, processing, marketing, and distribution of the plant in all suitable areas of the country to maximize the benefits of the exceptionally nutritious and productive but underutilized tropical crop. [more]

NAGA CITY – Liza Ordas could not forget the slightly bitter taste of a glass of green malunggay (Moringa oeifera) juice their mother would force them to drink at least twice a week when she was just a child. [more]

Four Filipino high-schools students bagged major awards at the recently concluded Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) at Silicon Valley in San Jose, California. [more]

MANILA, Philippines - More often than not, when we refer to malunggay (Moringa oleifera), we only mean the leaves or immature greed pods which we use for cooking and other nutritional and medicinal purposes. Leaf stalks are often thrown away. But did you know that the stalk is just as nutritious as the leaves? [more]

Koronadal City - The Department of Agriculture (DA) is pinning its hope on a farmer-scientist's malunggay seedlings propagation technique to address the increasing demand for malunggay planting materials in the country, an agriculture official said. [more]

PILI, Camarines Sur—The Department of Agriculture (DA) regional field unit (RFU) for Bicol is grooming the province of Camarines Sur as the leading producer of malunggay (horse radish or Moringa oleifera) in the country under the agency’s accelerated hunger-mitigation (AHM) program launched here recently. [more]

ILOILO CITY — A biofuel firm is proposing to put up refineries in Western Visayas, citing the region’s abundant supply of raw materials. [more]

KORONADAL CITY - The lowly “malunggay” (Moringa oleifera) has now become a favorite for some farmers in Southwestern Mindanao that government planners are targetting 15,000 hectares of farm lands for it. [more]

Time and again, our grandmas and nanays have told us that malunggay leaves are good for blood circulation and helps in producing milk for lactating mothers. Take the case of my mother. Believing I was anemic during my growing up years (because I looked pale), she would concoct delicious meals for the family: malunggay soup, ginisang monggo with malunggay leaves and ginataang malunggay leaves with fish (tuna, yellow fin, tambacol, or tulingan fish variety). Indeed my mother was right! Those foods were tasty and nutritious hence I grew up enjoying dishes with malunggay leaves. [more]

Time and again, our grandmas have told us that malunggay is good for blood circulation and helps in producing milk in the case of lactating mothers. What we didn’t know was that aside from these, malunggay, or scientifically known as moringa oelifera and known to the rest of the world as the moringa leaf, is so full of nutrients and vitamins that an ounce of it in its powdered form is more potent than a multivitamin capsule. In fact, it has the same amount of Vitamin C as seven oranges, has four times more calcium than milk, contains three times the potassium in bananas, four times the Vitamin A in carrots and three times the iron in spinach. All these nutrients are found in those petite green leaves that most of us have in our backyards. [more]

Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Bicol regional executive director Joselin Marcus Fragada has instructed his field officials in the provincial offices to distribute malunggay seedlings during the Independence Day celebration on June 12, 2009. [more]

MANILA, Philippines - Proving that it is indeed a super vegetable, Malacañang has tapped “malunggay” (moringa) in the fight against poverty and climate change. [more]

Sorsogon Province (27 March) - Maunlad na Asosasyon, Relasyon at Ehemplo ng Comunidad (MAREC) is encouraging Sorsoganons to become more persistent in planting malunggay (moringa oleifera) because of its high demand in the market. [more]

ZAMBOANGA CITY - CITY agriculturist Diosdado Palacat is encouraging farmers to plant malunggay trees on idle lands and even on their backyard as his office is distributing free malunggay seeds. [more]

AN increasing number of Filipinos are becoming more aware of and more responsible about their health. They are more conscious about the welfare of their families and go to great lengths to provide them with healthy, fresh and organic dishes. Studies show that diabetes, heart disease, hypertension and some cancer-related diseases are caused by eating unhealthy foods. This probably explains why people are now “going green” or switching to organic foods. [more]

Guests at the Kapihan sa Manila media forum last Monday were three presidents: Sen. Mar Roxas, president of the Liberal Party, Sen. Chiz Escudero, soon-to-be president of the Nationalist People’s Coalition (the two are also among the frontrunners for the Philippine presidential derby next year), and former senator Joey Lina, president of the Manila Hotel and self-proclaimed president of the so-called “Malunggay Republic.” I will discuss what Roxas and Escudero said at the Kapihan in a subsequent column and concentrate today on the “malunggay” (“marunggay” in the Ilocano language, horseradish tree in the United States), a common, easy-to-grow bantam-sized tree whose leaves and fruits are very nutritious and a common ingredient in many Filipino dishes. [more]

Maasin City, Southern Leyte (2 February) - In support to the Food-for-School program and the "Gulayan sa Paaralan" project, the Department of Education conducted an orientation-training cum demonstration on how to cook malunggay-based recipes, Friday at Candy's Function Hall here. [more]

Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap and Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim yesterday led the feeding of 200 children n San Andres, Manila with malunggay-fortified lugaw to kick off the three-day 79th anniversary celebration of the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) which had developed the technology to increase the production and diversify the uses of this vegetable. [more]

DAGUPAN CITY, Dec. 9 — The city government will make the nutritious "malunggay" (Moringa oleifera) as a signature vegetable, and effect its entry in the One Town, One Product (OTOP) concept. [more]