By Mortz C. Ortigoza
ROSARIO, La Union - Corn farmers of La Union Province have found the antidote against the dreaded Fall Armyworm (FAW) that scourge to financial loses their counterparts in other parts of the country and the world.
Engineer Cesario G. Sembrana told this newspaper that Victoriano de Vera was one of the countless farmers here and abroad who saw how the FAW gnawed corn plants to destruction.
“Mga kabaryo natin doon meron silang problem about iyong infestation ng corn nila. Barangay Tabtabungao, Rosario La Union. Almost all the areas sa corn production for young corn tinamaan iyong lahat noong sakit. Iyong Full Armyworm (My village mate there got problem on the infestation of the species on their corn. It is in Barangay Tabtabungao, Rosario La Union. Almost all the areas of their corn production were hit by the moth),” Sembrana, who is the National Tobacco Administration’s Provincial Manager in Pangasinan, said.
He cited that farmers try every pesticides in the market but to no avail as the FAW continues their catastrophic rampage to corn plants.
GNAWED. Corn plants gnawed by the dreaded Fall Armyworms that besieged with impunity farmers in South America, Africa, and Asia. Philippine officials are at loss how to solve this pandemic that cost hundreds of millions of pesos loses to Filipino farmers. |
Sembrana said that the Department of Agriculture and the Municipal Agriculturist Office stared at a blank wall how to cure the plants that have been gobbled by this pandemic for several years already.
Farmers
in Iloilo Province last year sprayed their corn plants and the areas surrounding
them with clean water and muscovado sugar to draw ants that will bite the army
worms.
Engineer Cesario G. Sembrana |
Provincial
Agriculturist Elias Sandig cited that FAW had affected farmers in the towns of
Pototan, Santa Barbara, and Cabatuan.
But
their methods seem ineffective as he and other corn coordinators plan to study
other strategies of defeating the FAW.
Sembrana
told Victor de Leon, a village mate, the owner of a one fourth hectare here to
try the seaweed based fertilizer.
In
years 2017 to 2018 the NTA certified AMO Fertilizer hurdling the bio efficacy
evaluation trial.
“Entitled “Efficacy Test of AMO
Plant Growth Enhancer on Yield and Quality of Burley and Improved Flavor
Tobacco" conducted by the NTA under its Protocol Research and Development
Program Crop Year 2017 -2018,”
It was signed by National Tobacco
Administration’s Administrator Robert L. Seares, M.D.
“Sabi
ko subukan ninyo kaya itong AMO Growth Enhancer.Sabi ko sa kanila at awa ng
Diyos naka recover nga iyong field. Kahit puntahan ninyo doon sa Tabtabungao si
Victoriano de Vera (I told them to try AMO Growth Enhancer. In God’s graces you
could recover in your loses.You (reporters) can check Victoriano de Vera in
Tabtabungao)”.
10
days after spraying with AMO Plant Growth
Enhancer (APGE), the beleaguered plants whose
leaves were chewed by FAW recovered.
“Iyong
recovery kasi iyong mga plant was observed after 10 days (The recovery of the
corn plants were observed after 10 days)”.
He
said after seeing that the Fall Armyworms have found its match on APGE, he
requested AMO founder and general manager Eric Acuรฑa to distribute his product for free.
“Si
Attorney Acuรฑa provided
free (AMO fertilizer) for testing sa lahat na nag attend ng meeting at iyan ang
pinapa monitor ko ngayon kung ano ang progress (Attorney Acuna provided to all
attendees free AMO fertilizer for testing. I am asking somebody to monitor for
the progress of the test)”.
The
fertilizer is known to provide high brix level that killed insects.
When told by this writer about experimental caterpillars became
lethargic and eventually died upon consuming leaves with high brix, Acuรฑa said
AMO is a revolutionary highly energized carbon based molecule product much like
plants that have their 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.
Sembrano
wished the efficacy of AMO to defeat this bane to farmers here, other parts of
the country, Africa, South America, and Asia.
Since
it landed in Africa from its native South America in 2016, FAW has quietly
eaten its path to Asia. The continent’s favorable sub-tropical environment and
crops provided a steady medium of growth. It enabled this insect horde to reach
India, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and China– the second largest producer of
corn in the world. In the Philippines, the pest has been spotted in Cagayan
Valley– the country’s top corn area. Government and agricultural companies are
coordinating and monitoring the spread of this pest before it affects the
nation’s production, according to an article titled: Syngenta: Stopping the
march of the Fall Armyworm published at Business World.
Sembrano
invited stakeholders to come here in Barangay Tabtabunao and see for themselves
how the growth enhancer cured the crops of Mr. de Vera and other farmers.
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