GENERAL SANTOS. Sarangani Governor Migs Dominguez poses with teachers at the "I Love My Teachers' Day" at Coco Beach in Gumasa on December 16. (Contributed photo)
INSTEAD of using commercial fertilizers and pesticides, farmers can lessen their expenses by using a tiny nitrogen-fixing fern, azolla.
In China, azolla has been used to bolster agricultural productivity for over a thousand years. When rice paddies are flooded in the spring, they can be inoculated with azolla, which then quickly multiplies to cover the water, suppressing weeds. The rotting plant material releases nitrogen to the rice plants, providing up to nine tons of protein per hectare per year.
Guv: Hostage taking in Sultan Kudarat town not true
KIDAPAWAN CITY -- Sultan Kudarat Governor Teng Mangudadatu has denied reports the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels raided a village in Esperanza town and used five villagers they allegedly kidnapped last Friday as human shields.
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