QUEZON CITY, May 22 — Today’s health crisis teaches us to act as one, so we can heal as one. That is, when we are called to follow certain protocols, everyone must follow. Ones disobedience can put others lives into risk. The same goes for controlling pests in rice farming. A farming community’s planting calendar must be in sync, or else, farmers may experience unwanted field infestation.
QUEZON CITY, May 22 — Todays health crisis teaches us to act as one, so we can heal as one. That is, when we are called to follow certain protocols, everyone must follow. Ones disobedience can put others lives into risk. The same goes for controlling pests in rice farming. A farming community’s planting calendar must be in sync, or else, farmers may experience unwanted field infestation.
Crop protection experts at Philippine Rice Research Institute of the Department of Agriculutre (DA-PhilRice) recommend the practice of synchronous planting after a rest period as an effective pest management strategy.
If farmers in an area plant synchronously, crops can be harvested almost simultaneously. Insect pests cannot thrive or multiply there because there is no source of food or habitat for them to stay, Genaro Rillon, crop protection expert at PhilRice, explained.
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