plant and propagate their vegetables or “Fertilizer or soil nutrients companies will also be allowed to showcase their showcase their technology. products and outstanding performances “Companies whose vegetable will also be acknowledged and given seeds or planting materials would yield citations,” he said. the highest production will be declared Piñol urged interested vegetable champion with different categories,” growers to join the event and get in touch Piñol said. with the MinDA office in this city and coordinate with focal person Genevieve The MinDA chief added that Bangcaya via mobile number 0939-919awards such as Carrot King, Broccoli King, 1675. Cabbage King, and others will be given to companies whose seeds will show “The deadline for the submission of validated outstanding production and intent to participate will be the last week quality. of July 2020,” he said. (PNA)
MinDA to put up storage complex for Mindanao corn farmers By Prexx Marnie Kate Trozo
Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) will propose the establishment of “corn storage complexes” using the modern silo systems equipped with dryers in the four major corn-producing regions of Mindanao: Zamboanga Peninsula, Northern Mindanao, Central Mindanao and the Bangsamoro Region. In a statement on Monday, MinDA Secretary Emmanuel Piñol said the corn facilities will be owned by the corn farmers’ cooperatives which will be linked by MinDA to financing institutions for their operating capitals.
areas, Piñol said farmers would be able to deliver their produce to their respective cooperatives, which in turn will store the harvests under a system similar to the sugar quedan.
This will give corn farmers leverage With the corn storage complex in the pricing of their products as they strategically placed in corn-producing could hold on to their stocks and wait for a July 18-24, 2020 |
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