Ornamental agriculture, which involves growing plants for decorative purposes and landscape design, is growing fast across the entire Philippines during the pandemic, and the government couldn’t keep up.
Ornamental agriculture, which involves growing plants for decorative purposes and landscape design, is growing fast across the entire Philippines during the pandemic, and the government couldn’t keep up.
To catch up with this trend, Ernie Lito Bollosa, agriculturist at the Bureau of Plant Agriculture (BPI), an attached agency of the Department of Agriculture (DA), thinks the government should come up with an accreditation process for all seller plantitos and plantitas out there.
This, according to him, will make it easier for the government to give flower and plant growers access to support and credit; mandate them to follow a set of guidelines in terms of the use of chemicals on their plants, which will help ensure the safety of their and their workers health; improve traceability on the origin of the plants; and lastly, make sure that consumers are paying the right price from the soil and pots to the plant itself.
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