Diversified farming seen to boost yield

Diversified farming seen to boost yield

from: http://www.mb.com.ph/diversified-farming-seen-to-boost-yield/

Tacurong City – The local government here has launched its technology demonstration farm on diversified farming in the three farming villages here.

City Agriculturist Ramon Losanes said local farmers have been visiting the diversified demo farms in the villages of Baras, San Pablo, and Ledesma where they were introduced to the technology of diversified rice farming, hog, vegetable, and mudfish production.

“Through diversified farming, local farmers are expected to boost their production, and augment their income,” Losanes said.

As this developed, Losanes encouraged the members of the local farmers’ cooperatives to apply the technology in a bid to ensure food security, and increase production – resulting to an improved income.

He stressed that diversified farming provides alternatives to the farmers during calamity, wherein they can produce other products though their rice fields are devastated by typhoons.

It was learned that the Department of Agriculture (DA) funded the technology demonstration farm on diversified rice farming system, in partnership with the provincial and local governments, which initiated the organization of farmers’ cooperatives.

The diversified farming system also includes a Korean-based technology on hog production, which does not emit foul odor that could be hazardous to the environment, and the community.