Organic vegetable training set in Sagay

THE Negros Occidental Provincial Government launched the three-month Organic Vegetable Production Training Class 01-16 for more than 200 farmers in Sagay City Tuesday.

The participants are marginal farmers, agrarian reform beneficiaries, and former rebels from the cities of Sagay, Cadiz and Escalante, and Manapla town.

The program is being implemented by the Provincial Government through the Provincial Peace, Integration and Development Unit (Pro-Pidu) headed by Provincial Planning and Development Coordinator and Pro-Pidu Action Officer Ma. Lina Sanogal, the Army’s 303rd Infantry Brigade, and 62nd Infantry Brigade.

Sanogal said the program mainly seeks to alleviate poverty, advocate organic farming, and promote lasting peace particularly in far-flung areas of Negros Occidental.

The organic vegetable production demo farm located at Herbal Garden will serve as training venue to teach farmers on the proper way to grow organic vegetables.

Sagay City Mayor Alfredo Marañon III said the training will pave the way for Negrenses to become suppliers of organic products, considering that there is an increasing demand of organic food worldwide.

His father Governor Alfredo Marañon Jr. said the farmers will also be trained on how to make organic fertilizers to augment their production.

There is big money in organic farming and at the same time it is good for people who are health conscious because organic vegetables are free of pesticides and other harmful chemicals, the governor added.

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