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Delayed Feeding Is Practicable in Polyculture

The 45-day delayed feeding, a technique for saving on feed cost, can be practiced in polyculture, or the culture of different fish in one pond.

This was found in a demonstration project of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Region II (BFAR Region II) conducted in a fish farm in Barangay Catarawan in Piat, Cagayan.

Following the recommended stocking rate of 5 fingerlings per square meter in polyculture, 6,080 size 22 tilapia (80%) and 380 common carp (5%) fingerlings were stocked into the 1,520-square meter fishpond of project-cooperator Marcial Balmores last March. Two months later, 1,140 catfish or hito (15%) fingerlings were stocked. Commercial or artificial feeds were introduced 45 days later to save on feed cost.

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COCAFM Favors Extension of CARP

For speedy passage of land use plan, COCAFM has decided to form a special CARP sub-committee to review the controversial program.

The land reform program in the Philippines was launched by then President Ferdinand Marcos when he issued Presidential Decree No.27 which ordered the distribution of rice and corn lands to landless farmers. The said law was later amended to include sugar land.

When the people power of 1986 ended the martial law regime of Marcos and the nation once again enjoyed the freedom under a democratic form of government, Mrs. Corazon Aquino, widow of the late Sen. Benigno Aquino, Jr., was installed as President and Congress was re-established. One of the laws enacted was Republic Act 6657, better known as the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL) which took effect on June 15, 1988 and instituted a Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) to promote social justice and industrialization.

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Sugar Industry Leaders Seek Review of CARP

Sugar industry leaders in the country recently called for a review of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) as it criticized its “inherent flaws” which, they claimed, even defeats its noble purpose of liberating farmers from the bondage of tenancy.

The United Sugarcane Planters Federation (UNIFED), one of the largest coalitions of sugarcane farmers in the country said that a CARP review is needed at this point to be able to correct its defects and “make it attuned to the realites on the ground and aims of legitimate farmers.”

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CARP Extension is a Must

Agrarian reform is foremost, a social justice program. It brings about the spirit of selflessness and ensures equal access to wealth and basic services – land, food, education and employment. The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), which Congress passed in 1988 was meant to achieve this cause.

CARP didn’t only try to free the landless farmers from long years of subjugation. It went beyond land distribution. It is land reform plus support services, two factors instituted to achieve agricultural growth and food security.

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