D.A Exec. Certifies How Seaweed Fertilizer Spikes Palay Harvest

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

SUAL, Pangasinan – A top agriculture official attested how a seaweed based fertilizer significantly increased the harvest of rice farmers here while they reduced their expenses.

“Tumaas po ang ani nila and saka iyong cost bumaba siya,” declared to GMA-7 regional television by Dr. Jovita Datuin, the chief Science Research Specialist of the Department of Agriculture Region-1, after a farm trial in this western Pangasinan town of AMO Plant Growth Enhancer.

SEAWEED BASED – Dr. Jovita Datuin confirmed to GMA – 7 regional television how a seaweed based fertilizer’s AMO Plant Growth Enhancer increased the harvest of farmers in Pangasinan while it reduced their expenses.

Dr. Datuin said that despite the farmers not using insecticide, the department found out that the root development and yield of the palay hike.

“Tumaas po iyong yield nila at maganda pa rin iyong leaf color at mga parameters na tinitingnan ng mga researchers na tumutok okay po siya,” she stressed.

In 2018, the regional office of the D.A had its on-farm trial here using AMO with laudable result.

Eric Acuña, AMO founder and general manager, told this newspaper about the efficacy of his product when he and the then mayor Roberto Arcinue of Sual, Pangasinan piloted it here in a countless of hectares.

“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 Sual mayor told this writer.

 Sual Municipal Agricultural Office Head Flor Guanzon and staff showed Mayor Layus and company how the kelp based fertilizer increased the yield of the local farmers.

BROCHURE – The brochure of AMO Plant Growth Enhancer panned by the camera of GMA-7 regional television when it reported how AMO strengthened the root development of the palay, thickening of rice straw, vigorous and sturdier rice plant, and yield a buffer harvest.

  

Farmer Jose Abubun cited to GMA-7 TV that before using AMO PGR he used to harvest 80 to 100 cavans of 50 kilos each of palay every hectare.

“Ang malaking kaibahan na napansin ko iyong butil ng palay malulusog siya at pagdating sa timbang po matimbang siya,” he cited in Filipino.

The experimental trials of the D.A with AMO PGR was the government’s way to help the Filipino farmers who reeled in the onslaught of cheap imported rice because of the Rice Liberalization Law.

Lawyer Acuña cited that the experiment here showed that before the farmers used KELP PGR their harvest per hectare was 4, 325 kilos or 86.5 cavans of 50 kilos each.

“But with AMO they harvested 9,627 kilos or 192.5 cavans using KELP PGR compared to the farmer’s recommended rate of granular fertilizer alone. It was a whopping record breaker of 140% increase in yield. From 80 cavans to 192 cavans after using AMO . And there was no need to use chemical insecticides and fungicide," Acuña, a former congressman, explained.

He said the Department of Agriculture used two organic fertilizer products in the experiment.

Acuna cited KELP PGR all in one formula and Carrageenan PGP. The latter similar with AMO’s KELP, used an extraction from red edible seaweed and treated to break its particle down into very small pieces which are readily absorbed by plants and consumed as plant growth promoter.

“But Carrageenan increased only by 23% the farmers yield in Sual unlike AMO’s 55% per hectare there,” he explained to the writer.

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The AMO founder said that the seaweed based organic fertilizer is the silver bullet to stop the rampages of cheap Vietnam rice in the Philippines.

He explained that if the cost of production (COP) of the Vietnam rice is P6.00 per kilo versus the Philippines’ P12. 41 a kilo he can compete with a P4.53 a kilo by using his plant BRIX growth enhancer technology.

“The cost of production of Vietnam is P6.00, tariff imposed by the Philippines government on that price is 35% or P2.10 a kilo, freight cost is P1.00, and importer’s profit is P1.00,” he cited the landed cost of P10 a kilo.

He said that with AMO organic fertilizer applied to a hectare of a rice farm, a kilo of the local palay will cost P4.53 that could threaten the Vietnam staple.

“Habol natin is for everybody to try. We are willing to conduct free farm trial,” Acuña , who impressed several sectors like National Tobacco Administration after he gave them a free experiment, stressed.

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