Pinoy Farmer Found Cure vs Corn Plant’s Pandemic

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 Acuña to distribute his product for free.

“Si Attorney Acuña 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, Acuña 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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