250 farmers finish green farming program

Friday, December 10, 2010

TWO hundred fifty farmers from 18 towns in two Western Visayas provinces finished the School-on-Air program of the Department of Agriculture (DA).

A graduation ceremony was conducted Friday at the Amigo Terrace Hotel in Iloilo City.

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Manuel Olanday, chief of the regional crops division, said the ceremony showed the enthusiastic response of rice farmers and those engaged in vegetable and fruit farming and other livelihood farming activities in the barangays.

He said the farmers were taught about integrated waste recycling technology, which converts farm wastes such as rice stalks, rice hull and other agricultural wastes into organic fertilizer.

The organic fertilizer helps the farm soil retain its nutrients to ensure plant growth and health.

Among other topics covered by the program were vermiculture endeavor and the propagation of earthworms as a rich source of potash fertilizer.

A total of 200 farmers from Passi City and 80 from Barotac Viejo made up the majority of the participants in the school-on-air program.

Other participants came from the towns of Barotac Nuevo, Calinog, Concepcion, Dingle, Duenas, Igbaras, Leganes and Leon and from the island province of Guimaras. (LCP)