January 19, 2025

Emmanuel "Manny" F. Piñol

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4-Month Farm Trials! Chicken Manure Sludge Effective Plant Booster

Four months ago, Rocky French and I started a simple farm trial on the effect of Chicken Manure Sludge on plant growth.
Meron kasi akong itinanim noong April 10, 2022 na mga Kadyos sa gilid mismo ng farmhouse ko at after one month, yong isang puno appeared very healthy and vigorous ang growth.
Yong iba naman ay payat at bansot.
At about the same time, Jonathan Suy, a young friend who owns a huge chicken farm in Davao City, introduced to me the Chicken Manure Sludge, a liquid by-product in the Thermophilic processing of the chicken dung.
In our experiment, we used the robust Kadyos as our control plant and applied the sludge on the others whose growth were stunted.
Yesterday, I took this video which shows that the stunted Kadyos which received the Chicken Manure Sludge had outgrown the control plant.
Ano ang significance ng experiment na ito sa Philippine agriculture?
Well, napakamahal ng abono at ang daming mga chicken farms all over the country na hirap mag dispose ng chicken dung.
Dapat magpatayo ng Chicken Dung Thermophilic Processing Facilities and make Chicken Manure Sludge available even just for vegetable farmers.
When I was Agriculture Secretary, the Batangas Egg Producers Cooperative was given funds to build a similar facility.
I was also able to convince a young enterprising businessman, Jomerito Soliman to build one in Anao, Tarlac at the height of the Bird Flu problem to ensure safe Chicken Dung disposal but this was blocked by the local officials.
Ito dapat ang paggamitan ng P1.1-B na funding ng DA-BSWM instead na yong walang kwenta at di nagagamit na electric composting machine.
#GovernanceIsCommonSense!
#FarmingIsAppliedScience!