Phil. Daily Inquirer: Organic farming is alive and well in Baras
Finally, after three and a half months of waiting, the local government’s flagship project of “organic farming” gets featured in the country’s leading newspaper the Philippine Daily Inquirer. It was written by Dulce Festin-Baybay and appears in the Metro section today, Aug. 3. You can download a PDF copy here (2.01MB).
Read the article here:
Organic farming is alive and well in Baras
At that time, newly elected Mayor Wilfredo C. Robles and Councilor Ramon A. Matignas Jr. were concerned about the low income of farmers in the town, which was ironic since it was considered an ideal area for farming.
The interview took after the opening of the inter-barangay sportsfest last April 19. The Inquirer reporter and photographer were brought in by Andrea Ynares, wife of Gov. Casimiro Ynares III.
Ynares, the Inquirer team and officials of the local government visited a farm in Barangay Santiago which is ran by “Bahay Aurora,” an orphanage for the abandoned children. Ynares herself tasted an okra right from its stem. They then went to Barangay San Jose to see how the organic rice are grown. A sumptous lunch of tilapia, kare-kare, mangoes, pineapple and brown rice followed in Barangay Mabini. The refreshment was an organic juice.
Here are some of the photos of that visit.
Municipal Agriculture office Mel Llagas and Andrea Bautista pick some okra.
After taking some, Bautista offered a piece to Mayor Wilfredo Robles.
Municipal Administrator Agerico Valdez on the left side.
Interviewing a Kakasa official.
Ynares talked with some orphans.
A part of the field where organic rice are grown.
No rice shortage?
Photographing a photographer.
The Inquirer reporter interviewing the mayor.
Blesilda Calub of UPLB’s College of Agriculture in the extreme left. Beside her is Dr. Ramon Matignas.
Some members of Kakasa sharing a good laugh with Ynares.
alex yu said
am August 3 2008 @ 11:39 pm
hi joseph,
sorry for the very late reply, i just came from out of town…
thank you for visiting my site. how did you get to know it?
yes, you are most welcome to visit the farm. but there is not much to see right now coz the am just starting.. nevertheless, do email me if you are interested… i might go to baras next week. nothing definite yet.
warm regards,
alex
ice said
am August 4 2008 @ 9:18 pm
we are conducting a research regarding baras organic farming.. can you furnish us some information about it? and are we welcome to visit the place and conduct some survey? it will be a great help..
THANKS!
jen said
am August 5 2008 @ 8:45 pm
we want to conduct a research about oganic farming in baras.. who can we contact with regard to this? thanks..
jordan_polsci said
am August 5 2008 @ 8:51 pm
For us to triumph in this endeavour we must start from within and that is by educating the society particularly the most vital sector, the youth.
All sectors must unite in an integrated campaign on organic agriculture education. Agriculture anchored on Organic Farming must be taught in our schools and barangays.
suggested activities:
palakihan’pabigatan ng organic crop
organic agriculture quiz
etc…
It starts in the brain….
alex yu (la ferme organique) said
am August 9 2008 @ 9:40 am
hi ice and jen,
were your refering to me or the author of the website?
if it is our farm that you are interested in, please email us at la.ferme@ymail.com or visit our multiply site at. http://organique.multiply.com
have a nice day.
warm regards,
alex yu
LA FERME ORGANIQUE
MANANAMBOL said
am August 19 2008 @ 11:28 am
Bat parang mali ba yung caption sa paper? Or is it just me? Nagka confusion ata between the father and son.
ivan said
am September 11 2008 @ 9:08 pm
i am student from UPLB po, i am currently conducting a paper on the training that happened last summer conducted by experts from UPLB. I was just wondering po, who were part of the training and could you give po a simple summary of how the training went po. thank you.