BUTUAN CITY, May 9 — Economies of scale. This is the driving force of the corn and cassava program of the Department of Agriculture DA) in adopting a clustering approach in extending its services to the farmers in the region.
BUTUAN CITY, May 9 — Economies of scale. This is the driving force of the corn and cassava program of the Department of Agriculture DA) in adopting a clustering approach in extending its services to the farmers in the region.
Melody Guimary, DA Caragas regional corn program coordinator said that currently there are 18 existing corn clusters in the region consists of 3,622 farmers with a total area of 6,326 hectares.
A cluster should have at least 200 hectares contiguously located, with an organized and registered farmers organization with the complete set of officers, she said.
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