Pigeon Pea

Pigeon Pea or kadios as locally known is an erect, branched and shrubby legume. The small pods are eaten as vegetable white still green or young. The dried seeds are also eaten as vegetable and cooked with other vegetables, fish, shrimps or meat.

The leaves are pounded and applied as treatment for sores. The juice passed from the leaves mixed with salt as given as medicine for jaundice.

Plant 2 to 4 seeds in a hill spaced at 1.5 meters apart between hills in the row or furrow, and 1.5 meters apart between furrows.

Mango

The ripe mango fruit is usually eaten as a dessert. It can be preserve into jelly, jam, chutney, marmalate and vinegar. The green fruit may be eaten as is with bago-ong(bagong) or salt. It is also made into pickles.

Children suffer from scurvy due to lack of Vitamin C or for not taking fruit juices that are rich in Vitamin C. Daily requirements of Vitamin C is 40 miligrams. Eating one mango a day will give all the Vitamin C one needs daily. In addition, one also gets the Vitamins needed daily.

Tea can be made from the leaves of mango tree. This beverage counteracts the inflammation of the nose and mucus membranes during a cough and other diseases of the bronchial tube. The ripe mango fruit is a laxative. The seed which is bitter can be prepared as deworming agent.

Mango tree may be propagated by seed, bondding, grafting or inarching. The plants are set in the field from 10 to 14 meters apart.