Northern Ioilo Corn Producers Association Inc(NICPAI) members are professionals, they are very much in a position to understand and readily adopt innovations that would prove beneficial in their farming endeavors.
We would venture to say that after witnessing the results of the Durabloom techno demo, they easily computed their financial gains if they use and advocate the product.
For instance, NICPAI chairman Jose Baldomero, 64, is a BS Criminology graduate from the Philippine College of Criminology. He retired as a police colonel in the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in 2002. Two years before he retired, he was already farming 6 hectares of riceland in Narra, Palawan. He also has a hectare of rice land in Sara, Iloilo where NICPAI is based. When he retired, he started to finance the operations of several corn farmers. Right now, he is financing 99.5 hectares of corn land which require 995 bags of Durabloom.
