BAYAMBANG–It is farfetched that the mysterious disease that affected the onion plants of Bayambang for the first time last year will strike again during the next onion planting season, starting after the rainy season this year.

This was the optimistic prediction of Mayor Leocadio de Vera who said timely intervention by the Department of Agriculture and the provincial government ensured that the disease will not recur in the next onion planting season.

De Vera called on the DA and the provincial government for help after noting that most onion plantations last year did not produce good harvest be cause of the still unnamed disease that hit their onion plants.

The disease outbreak was felt in 14 barangays of the town, which are traditional onion producing areas, and in adjacent towns.

The mayor said that technicians held a series of meetings with farmers and advised them to change their old onion seeds and fertilizers that were believed to have caused the disease.

Moreover, the farmers were advised to adopt new farming practices, he said.

“I am optimistic that if   the farmers belonging to the Bayambang Onion Growers Association, will follow the advice of technicians, the mysterious onion disease will not repeat in the next planting season,” de Vera said.

Onion is the a major cash crop of Bayambang after the rice planting season, de Vera said, adding that he is doing everything he can to help  because most people of Bayambang depend their income from onions.

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