Eggplant Farming

Eggplant, is cultivated for the immature fruits which are roasted, fried, stuffed, cooked, pickled, or processed. Preferred types are the long, purple varieties with green calyx, but some regions also prefer the long or round, green-colored varieties. It is grown in 18,000 ha all over the country, but major producers are Ilocos, Central Luzon, and Southern Tagalog.

Eggplant Varieties

Batangas long purple
Bulakea
Casino
Claveria KS
Dumaguete
Jackpot
Long purple
Tanauan KS
Llamado

Climatic Requirements for Eggplants

Eggplant can be grown from low to mid elevations throughout the year. Production is best, however, during the dry, cool months in sandy loam soil. Clay loam to clayey soils, with pH of 5.5-6.5 can also be used.

Land Preparation

Prepare land by plowing and harrowing twice. Make furrows 1.0 m apart. Spread manure along rows or hills at 1-2 handfuls per hill. Apply complete fertilizer (14-14-14) at 10-15 g/hill and cover lightly with soil.

Planting Eggplants

Transplanting. Irrigate area before transplanting. Plant one seedling per hill at a distance of 0.5-1.0 m depending on variety. Provide 1.0-m-long stake to prevent lodging. Irrigate by furrow every 7-14 days depending on season and soil type.Side-dress with urea at 10 g/hill every 2-4 weeks during the vegetative stage. Use equal parts urea and 0-0-60 at the start of fruiting.Weed 2-3 times during the growing season, or as necessary. Practice mulching to minimize weed growth and maintain uniform soil moisture.

How to Get a Trademark

Trademark maybe necessary when you start, market, promote your business.

What is a trademark?

A trademark may be a letter, number, word, phrase, sound, smell, shape, logo, picture, aspect of packaging or a combination of these to distinguish the goods or services of one trader from those others. A service mark is the same as a trademark except that it identifies and distinguishes the source of a service rather than a product.

Trademark rights may be used to prevent others from using a confusing similar mark, but not to prevent others from making the same goods or from selling the same goods or services under a clearly different mark.

When you claim rights in a mark, you may use the "TM" (trademark) or "SM" (service mark) designation to alert the public to your claim, regardless of whether you have filed an application with the Philippine Patent Trademark Office (PPTO). However, you may use the registration symbol "®" only after the PPTO actually registers a mark, and not while an application is pending. Also, you may use the registration symbol with the mark only on, or in connection with the goods and/or services listed in the trademark registration.

Before designing and applying for a trademark, a search of the official trademark records must be completed to identify if trademark is available for use. If the trademark is available, you muct then apply for registration.

Applying for Trademark Registration

1. Submit a Request for Registration with the list of goods or services for which the registration is sought, a reproduction of the mark to be registered and the payment of the filing fee to the Bureau of Trademarks (BOT) of the Intellectual Property Office (IPO).