Veggie Growing In Sloping Farms
A project on growing high-value vegetables under contoured sloping areas is being implemented in Brgy. Masunoy and Brgy. Candungaw in San Isidro, Bohol.
This is a joint project of the local government (LGU) of San Isidro, the Bureau of Soils and Water Management, East-West Seed Company and the Australian Center for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR).
According to Daisy Monreal, technology transfer technologist of East-West Seed Company, they will showcase the improved techniques of growing high-value vegetables in sloping fields that are contoured to prevent erosion of the soil.
The technologists of East West Seed have been successfully teaching farmers in six Bohol towns under a program that involved the growing of vegetables in more or less flat lands.
Among the vegetables that are being showcased are hybrid eggplant, tomato, ampalaya, different varieties of sweet and hot pepper, cucumber and other vegetables.
Some 23 farmers have been selected to undergo training. After their training, they will put up their own vegetable projects under contoured conditions. Later, other farmers from the town and other towns will be brought to the adoptors’ projects so they could also learn the techniques of growing vegetables under contoured sloping farms.
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December 31st, 2009 at 11:15 pm
I would like to know about the remedy of having a teracotta color of soil…is there any possibility that i can plant and grow the hybrid seed from your company?
Because,i am planning to share it to one barangay here in our province.
I am interested too if theres some training to be taken this year…
and please let me know the date and where it will be….
Thanking you in advance