COTABATO CITY – Governor Mujiv Hataman, of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) and ABS-CBN Lingkod Kapamilya Foundation Chairperson Gina Lopez signed on Friday a memorandum of agreement that sets to launch the municipality of Raja Buayan in the province of Maguindanao as a model for organic vegetable farming in the region.
Hataman said they would agressively promote and sustain organic vegetable farming in the ARMM provinces.
Also on Thursday, some 21 farmer co-operators, each managing a hectare of farmland at Barangay Bugawas in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao participated in a technology demonstration on Thursday.
The demonstration on different inbred rice varieties was conducted by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao Integrated Agricultural Research Center (DAF-ARMMIARC) as part of its Grand Farmers’ Field Day and Rice Harvest Festival.
Inbred rice refers to varieties that produce seeds and subsequent crops with the same genetic makeup as the parent crop, according to the International Rice Research Institute.
The DAF-ARMMIARC introduced the Rice Crop Manager (RCM), a decision-making tool and agricultural management system for rice, to the farmers to help them implement precision rice farming. The RCM allows the selection of the appropriate rice management practice based on the site or soil condition.
Daud Lagasi, Maguindanao’s provincial agriculture officer, urged the farmers to help DAF-ARMM in promoting the technology to keep the region at pace with important developments in agriculture. (Bureau of Public Information)
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