The first 2,000 Buko Pandan Coconut seedlings that I am propagating in my farm are growing very well in polybags with Coco Peat and chicken dung composted through Thermopilic Process.
After about one month since the sprouted seedlings were placed in the polybags, I noticed that the leaves were lush and very green, indicating good nutrition and health.
The chicken dung, composted using the Thermopilic Process where heat basically “cooks” the dung and kills the pathogens, came from a friend, Jonathan Suy, whose family owns the Anna’s Breeder Farm in Davao City.
He actually asked me to try mixing the Thermopilic Processed compost with the Coco Peat in our nursery operations.
As part of the experiment, we added about 20% Thermopilic Processed Dung with 80% Coco Peat as our bagging medium.
We no longer use soil in our seedling bags in compliance with the soil quarantine protocol of the Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) which prohibits the shipping of Mindanao soil to other parts of the country because of the presence of Fusarium Wilt virus.
The good thing about the Thermopilic Processed chicken dung is that unlike the fresh chicken dung used in many vegetable farms in both the Cordillera and Bukidnon, it does not smell, does not attract flies and does not carry harmful pathogens.
Another good thing about the Thermopilic Processed chicken dung is that it costs less than P100 per 50-kilo bag.
This is going to be a big boost to organic vegetable farmers as it would greatly reduce the cost of production.
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