The First Garlic Techno Demo
Field Day of 14 participating Cities and Municipalities was held in
Umingan,Pangasinan on March 23,2014. The said activity was initiaated by the
Department of Agriculture –Regional Field Office I headed by Director Valentino
C. Perdido Jr. in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture Provincial
research and Experiment Center headed
by Gilbert D.Rabara,DVM and Engr.
Rosendo So of ABONO Partylist.
A trial demo on a 100 sq m area
was conducted in 14 Cities and Municipalities of Pangasinan namely ,Alaminos,
City, Bayambang, Malasiqui,, San Carlos City, Mangaldan, Alcala, Bautista,
Villasis, Urdaneta City, Pozzorubio, Rosales, Natividad, San Quintin and
Umingan,it is a first on the province of Pangasinan since the province is not a garlic growing area. The purpose of the
trial demo is to see if it is feasible to grow garlic in Pangasinan. Based on
the results presented by each participating municipalities, if garlic is
considered white gold in the Ilocos Region it will be the white diamond of
Umingan. Meaning,garlic growing is
feasible in the province. . A techno forum followed after the presentations to
give way to the questions,suggestions and comments of the participants to the
said activity.
Regional Executive Director
Valentino C. Perdido gave his commitment to expand the 100 sq m Techno Trial to
forty (40) has. on the next cropping
season. ABONO Partylist through Engr.
Rosendo So will provide the
farmers the inputs on a Plant Now Pay Later scheme. And they are going to buy
back their produce at a prevailing retail market price.
Former 5th District Representative attended the event
and signify his intentions to help the future garlic growers of Pangasinan.
Contributed by:
VILMA LAPUZ-ABALOS
Agricultural Technologist
No comments:
Post a Comment