“Miracle” Fertilizer to Spike Rice Harvest by 50%

 By Mortz C. Ortigoza

QUEZON CITY - Despite the new law allowing unlimited influx of imported rice in the country, the Filipino farmers can still spike their production per hectare by almost fifty percent thanks to a revolutionary fertilizer created by a former solon and entrepreneur.

Lawyer Eric G. Acuña told Department of Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol

 and his countless regional directors when he visited them in their offices that in case he be allowed to demonstrate for free in one planting and cropping season he could show to the government how his AMO Fertilizer can increase the average eighty cavans to one hundred twenty sacks of fifty kilos each of palay harvested by a Filipino farmer in a hectare.

Entrepreneur and former Pangasinan congressman Eric G. Acuña and wife Rosalie (3rd and 4th from left) and Agriculture Secretary Manny Piñol (2nd from left) pose for posterity after the Acuñas presented their intention to Piñol at his office in Quezon City to demonstrate for free to the Philippine government how their innovative fertilizer can increase palay yields in a hectare by  almost 50 percent.

The timing of this innovative fungicide and others jibe with the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF) where P3 billion has been allocated yearly to the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) by the government to cushion the farmers on the impact of the liberalization of the imported staple.

 The P10 billion RCEF allots too P5 billion for the Philippine Center for Post harvest Development and Mechanization (PhilMech) to provide farmers with rice farm machineries and equipment, P1 billion for the credit facility for rice farmers, and another P1 billion for technical skills training.

The surge of foreign rice was due to the implementation of Republic Act No. 11203 or an act liberalizing the importation, exportation, and trading of rice, lifting for the purpose the quantitative import restriction on rice, and for other purposes.

Acuña told this writer about the efficacy of his product when he and the mayor of Sual, Pangasinan piloted it there in a countless of hectares with impressive successes.

The former Third District Pangasinan congressman cited too that after a typhoon barreled Claveria, Cagayan Province only those AMO sprayed palay “proudly” stood in the midst of the destruction.

“The mayor there and her representative even visited Sual to witness how the miracle fertilizer gave the farmers there a booming harvest”.

Sual Mayor Roberto Arcinue collaborated what the former solon cited.

“They even had Lakbay Aral to Sual last February headed by former congresswoman and current Mayor of Claveria, Cagayan Celia Layus. She testified that her AMO sprayed palay survived the strong winds of typhoon Ompong and even had a higher yield than their usual harvests, “the mayor told this newspaper.

 Sual Municipal Agricultural Office Head Flor Guanzon and staff showed them how AMO has increased the yields of the local farmers. She cited too that farmers requirements like AMO fertilizers were subsidized by the mayor.

Arcinue said that even the regional office of the D.A sent an expert in his town to authenticate the claims of Layus, Arcinue, and Acuña.

The former solon said the revolutionary AMO fertilizer could not only solve the seven percent rice deficit produced by the local paddies but could make the Philippines piggyback on its treaty with the World Trade Organization to export limitless number of tons of rice in WTO member-countries.

“80 to 120, 40 cavans additional yield. If they have 10,000 hectares that’s 1.2  million and we are not talking about the hectares in the Philippines”.

There are 933, 000 hectares of palay in the country, according to the Philippines Statistics Office (2018). If those hectares traditionally produced 80 cavans each, that will be a staggering 111, 960,000 sacks if multiplied by forty percent if the revolutionary fertilizer is applied to them.

Rice farming employs 2.5 million households mostly considered to be the poorest in the Philippines. If broken, they are 2.1 million farmers, 110 workers for post-farm activities, and 320, 000 for ancillary works.

Presently, the country lags behind other fellow members of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) as rice producing countries because local production only averages 3.87 metric ton per hectare at a seemingly high cost of P12 per kilogram.

“This AMO technology is the cutting edge of Philippines agriculture. 
Aside from the additional of almost 50 percent in harvest, it can have reduced the farmers’ expenses by 50 percent their used of synthetic fertilizer,” Acuna cited.

He said it is a revolutionary highly energized carbon based molecule product much like plants has its own sugar. When applied to the plants, it is sent to the roots fueling plant processes at the roots. It exponentially increases bacterial respiration. Multiplying the effects of carbon flow and subsequently increasing nutrient flow.

“Imagine Sual, there are 10,000 hectares in one cropping. So sabihin niyo na lang 40 bags ang additional from 80 to 120 na lang. That’s 40 cavans extra. Over and above what they supposed to produce”.

 Acuña cited that the AMO 5-in-1 formulate is an organic fertilizer and soil conditioner, growth enhancer, foliar, fungicide and insect repellent.

 It is the production tool used in the AMO Program helping growers overcome the negative effects of bad or unpredictable weather and soil imbalance, ultimately increasing crop potential. Its program is a complete plant health system, utilizing the right fertilizers at the right timings to boost the production and quality of crops.

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