STA. CRUZ, llocos Sur The Army’s 81st Infantry Battalion helped in training farmers in Ilocos Sur switch to organic farming to increase their productivity.
STA. CRUZ, llocos Sur The Army’s 81st Infantry Battalion helped in training farmers in Ilocos Sur switch to organic farming to increase their productivity.
Lt. Col. Charles DZ Castillo, 81IB commander, said that through organic farming seminars, we will help the farmers to produce free and environment- friendly organic fertilizers from the available natural resources in their community.
Since, we are not subject matter experts on agricultural technologies; we tapped the expertise of the agricultural technicians from the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist (OPAG) in Ilocos Sur and the office of the municipal agriculturist, he said.
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