By Claro A. Lanipa
BAYOG, Zamboanga del Sur – The
Department of Agriculture (DA)-IX in collaboration with this municipality recently
conducted here an orientation on organic farming at the Municipal Swimming Pool
function hall.
Some 80 participants from the different farmers’
associations, national and local government officials and employees attended
the said activity.
“Organic farming could really be a great help to the farmers
to earn more by employing organic fertilizer because it is cheaper than
commercial fertilizer,” Mayor Leonardo Babasa Jr. said.
“Organically grown farm products are also safe and
healthy for human consumption,” the mayor added.
The mayor told the participants that he dreams of
making Bayog “an organic municipality” and he believes his town is on its way
to achieving it.
Babasa expressed his gratitude to DA for conducting the
orientation with Priscilla C. Hover, regional focal person on organic agriculture,
and her two staff, Cerelo Andale and Ritzchie Marie Yurong, as facilitators.
Since the farmer-participants got interested in organic
farming, they requested DA to conduct another training/workshop on vermin
casting.
Hover, however, suggested that the municipality send a
letter request to DA-IX as well as a letter of intent to avail of bags of
vermin cast for free. (FPG/CAL with report from Bernadine Gabawan,
MIO-Bayog/PIA9)
