Jagna plows for food security technologies

JAGNA – TECHNOLOGY that respects the aspiration of the Boholanos in general and the Jagnaanons in particular slowly drips into the way of life here. Plowing for agricultural development while reining on technology transfer for farmers here is finally taking into shape recently.

All of these, coming after the administration's no let-up campaign for food stability and security program for the town and beyond its borders. For the environment, the town's municipal agriculture officer (MAO) Carlforo Mangyao said that his office received agricultural aid through Unlad Kabayan in the form of 3,161 bags of organic fertilizer. The goodwill aid would be sprinkled to the 1,648 registered rice farmers here.

On the other hand, the National economic development Authority has nodded to the assistance of P500T. Said amount would be for the establishment of a Farmer's Information Technology Center (FITC) here. This assures of a unified adoption of the best and the most suitable technology that fits Jagna's requirements. The building would soon rise at the municipal lot at Carmoli, Pagina. In like manner, the Philippine Council of Agricultural Research and Development (PCARD) in Los Banos, Laguna has set a launching for an agricultural program that fits the same requirements after the building and the equipment shall have been put up here.

Engr. Arsenio Mensiona, DA Central Visayas (Region VII) administrative representative is reportedly conferring with local officials to iron out the PCARD project. This early, the Integrated Solid Waste Management (ISWM) municipal administrator Gerry Pagulon bared that the biodegradable waste materials collected by the LGU compactor unit and deposited in the town's sanitary landfill is already in for recycling into organic fertilizer.

The otherwise useless garbage now can be having a value after natural decomposition, thanks to the help of a shredder machine and the available technology adopted by the ISWM administrator who has upped another revenue for the town. Mangyao disclosed further that his office had started using the organic fertilized soil enriched with chicken dung's in a demo test ubi farm and peanuts in barangay Bunga Ilaya.

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