The Philippines government has been urged to reintroduce traditional organic methods of cassava production in a bid to boost the country’s ailing industry.
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Organic farming advocate Rex Rivera, the president of the Gen Santos City, insists that organic farming methods could help local farmers address the pest and disease problems currently plaguing the production of the high-value root crop.
Rivera revealed that according to Agriculture Department reports, the numbers of cassava farmers are dropping and production has fallen to 20 tons per hectare as opposed to the 50-80 tons per hectare recorded more than ten years ago.
He explained that while farmers were turning to inorganic fertilisers to solve the pest and disease problems, this would be useless, as cassava requires a lot of nutrients to grow.
“We have really to look at the traditional ways that actually proves to be equally if not more effective than the common methods,” he told a local newspaper.
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