FARMERS in Pangasinan are being urged to make their own organic fertilizer instead of using expensive chemical-based fertilizer not only to cut down their production costs by 80 per cent but also to increase their harvest by 100 per cent.

Former Third District Rep. Eric Acuna made the call as he stressed that organic farming is the real key to self-sufficiency in food production that could make Philippines a rice exporting country again.

Acuna, a gentleman farmer in his native Malasiqui town, who has proven organic farming as a boon to the farms many times over in his farm, said he has the technology to convert organic wastes like leaves of trees and plants, rice hay and straw as well as all decaying matters into cheap but very useful fertilizers and is willing to share this with individual farmers or groups of farmers.

With this technology, he said, farmers no longer have to worry about having to buy expensive chemical-based fertilizers for their farms.

Apart from being cheap and effective, organic farming is environmental friendly and could conserve and enrich the soil for a long period of time.

Acuna is holding seminars to interested farmers for free so that they too can prepare their own organic fertilizer in their own bacyards and farms using those wastes they can easily find in the environment.

Organic farming is the secret of success of many countries and the main reason why they have excess food which they often channel to the export market to earn for them the much-needed foreign exchange, he said. (Leonardo Micua)

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