Bogo City Mayor Carlo Martinez hands over farm inputs to the farmer beneficiaries.
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The Agriculture office of the City of Bogo provided farm production material inputs to eight farmer associations in the city last Wednesday as part of its continuing efforts to boost the agricultural sector.
Bogo City Mayor Carlo Martinez personally handed over the farm inputs to the farmers.
The eight farmer organizations which received the farm material inputs were Cayang Farmers Association, Sudlonon Bung-aw Farmers Association, Cayang Multi-purpose Cooperative, Kapunungan sa Makugihong Mag-uuma, Polambato United Farmers and Fisherfolks Association, Makugihong Mag-uuma sa Banban, Anonang Norte Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Association and the Hacienda Filomena Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Association.
Each organization received two plastic drums, 20 small seedling trays, eight big seedling trays, two plastic molds, a knapsack sprayer, water hose, 40 packs of organic fertilizer Bio-N, five rolls of polypropylene twine, bamboo poles and one kilogram of assorted seeds.
The farm material inputs will be used by the farmers’ associations in their respective techno-demo farms.
These farms have been established to vitalize lowland vegetable farm production in their community and assist farmers in gaining knowledge about modern farming methods by showcasing improved technologies compared with the usual farmer’s practice.
They are visited regularly by an agriculturist from the city government who provides technical assistance to the farmers.
By the end of this year, these techno-demo farms will be evaluated to determine which is the best in terms of farming practices on lowland vegetable production.
This is the third time that the City of Bogo has distributed inputs to farmers and fisherfolks.
Last month, it distributed fishing gears to fisherfolks in Barangay Gairan, and dispersed 15 heads of cattle to farmers in Barangay Banban, Anonang Sur and Binabag; and 68 goats in Barangay Don Pedro and Polambato.
Mayor Carlo Martinez has made agriculture a priority program under his administration.
The budget of the City Agriculture Office in 2017 is more than double from the previous year. /PR