Imported Mango Technology Adopted In A Hurry
In our travel around the country, we have seen that indeed the technology is not suitable under local conditions because the canopy of our mango varieties is spreading and the trees grow tall. The branches of many trees are already overlapping after only a few years. Experts say that mutual shading of the branches would render them practically useless as these would not flower and produce fruits.
We can only guess that two things will most likely happen. Mango growers who used this technology will have to prune heavily or probably cut down half of their trees to avoid mutual shading of the branches. This would mean that the grower will lose half of his investment in terms of finances and time.
Those who adopted this technology can only blame themselves for its failure to perform according to their expectations. By nature, however, many Filipinos tend to regard anything foreign to be better than local materials and technology. Several times we have met people who insist that local technology is inferior to those technologies in better developed countries.
Thus, this observation should always remind us to be wary of foreign introductions, most especially technologies whose performance under local condition is not yet known to us. It is not always true that every introduced foreign innovation or technology is superior to the local technology.
