DUMAGUETE CITY,
Feb 24 (PIA) --Dumaguete City has intensified its organic farming with the
proposed organic ordinance under the implementation of Republic Act 10068 or
Organic Agriculture Law.
City organic
agriculture focal person Philip Altamarino said, in support of the ordinance,
the city has planned to establish a Trading Center where the farmers sell their
farm produce to be supervised by a management body compose from all sectors.
The city will also
provide the farmers with organic inputs and other farm requirements for
sustainable production of organic commodities to be sold at the center.
Altamarino urged all
farmer association members to adapt organic farming technology and convert
their conventional practices into organic treatment of soil improvements.
Meantime, the
City Agriculture Office conducted a techno demo initiative to farmer-recipients
to generate sales from the production until the farmers’ next cropping season.
Under the Rural and
Urban Organic Vegetable Production Project of the city, the famer associations
received some farm inputs subsidy.
The subsidy program
recently launched by the city benefitted most of the farmer constituents and
organic advocates.
Altamarino said
an organic fertilizer was being produced utilizing biodegradables from the
dumpsite by fortifying the mixture with vermicast and natural fermented
solutions to improve its microbial supplementations.
“To date almost all
farmer constituents received Microbial Treated Supplement (MTS) subsidy for
farm development and improvement of their crop production and to augment farm
revenue through production of organically grown commodities,” said Altamariano.
He added MTS Organic
Bio Fertilizer is pack in 50- kilogram bag, a soil conditioner proven to
improve soil texture and convert conventional practices of rampant chemical
users.
While organic inputs
are applied only once from transplanting up to maturity of the crops it is
cheaper than application of chemical base fertilizer, he said.
(mbcn/JCT/PIA7-Negros Oriental)