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 Go Organic! Philippines is a group of NGOs, farmers organizations, local government units and sustainable agriculture advocates working together to promote organic farming as way of life to ensure better health, food security, balanced environment, and increased income for Filipino farmers.
Go Organic! Philippines asserts that sustainable responses are needed to food self-sufficiency problems and agriculture development challenges facing the country. It strongly advocates for the urgent need to shift to organic farming systems to combat the rising prices of commodities and farm inputs, shortage in the supply of food and rapidly deteriorating environment.
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400K hectares of rice land eyed for organic-farm conversion |
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September 14, 2011 ORGANIC farming advocates are eyeing the conversion of at least 400,000 hectares of agricultural land devoted to rice production into organic farm sites by 2016. Roland Cabigas, managing director of the La Liga Policy Institute (La Liga) and a convener of Go Organic! Philippines, said the figure represents 10 percent of the country’s total 4 million hectares of land devoted to rice production alone. The target, he said, was proposed by La Liga during the first of a series of consultation with various stakeholders in the Ilocos region (region 1) organized by the Department of Agriculture (DA)—Regional Field Unit 1 at the DBM Regional Center in San Fernando, La Union last week. Read more here
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Solons asked to support P1-B DA budget for organic farming |
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August 18, 2011 LAWMAKERS were asked on Tuesday to support the Department of Agriculture’s proposed budget for the promotion of organic farming in the country. Roland Cabigas, managing director of La Liga Policy Institute (La Liga) and a convenor of Go Organic! Philippines, said the DA’s proposed budget, which integrated a separate budget line item for organic farming amounting to close to P1 billion is “laudable” saying such will be a big boost in the campaign to turn Philippine farms “organic.” Cabigas issued the call as the House of Representatives’ committee on appropriation tackles the proposed budget for the DA in the 2012 National budget. Read more here
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Mayors pledge funding to boost Pangasinan organic farming |
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August 3, 2011 RECOGNIZING the need to shift to a more environment-friendly food production model, four local government units (LGUs) are set to institutionalize funding support to promote organic farming in the province of Pangasinan. Alaminos City Mayor Hernani A. Braganza, Bani Mayor Marcelo Navarro, Burgos Mayor Alberto Guiang and Dasol Mayor Noel Nacar recently signed a memorandum of agreement with the La Liga Policy Institute (La Liga) committing funding support for the Organikong Palayan Pangasinan project. A partnership project between the Department of Agriculture Regional Field Unit 1, the four LGUs and La Liga, Organikong Palayan promotes the shift to sustainable organic and ecological agriculture, essentially helping farmers veer away from agro-chemical agriculture. Read more here
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Gov't launches organic rice production |
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July 23, 2011 MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Agriculture (DA) on Friday formally set in motion a one-year program to promote the shift from conventional to organic rice production models in four pilot areas in the province of Pangasinan. Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala and DA Region 1 OIC Regional Executive Director Renato A. Maguigad led the launching of the program dubbed “Organikong Palayan – Pangasinan” during simple rites in Alaminos City. The project will be implemented by the La Liga Policy Institute (La Liga) in partnership with the local government units of Alaminos City and the municipalities of Burgos, Bani and Dasol. Read more here
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Ex-DAR exec calls for sustainable, organic agriculture |
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June 15, 2011 FORMER Agrarian Reform secretary Horacio “Boy” Morales Jr. said there are clear social and economic opportunities in undertaking sustainable, organic ecological agriculture or “SOE,” particularly in the poultry and livestock subsectors, with the increasing global demand for healthier food. Speaking before some 300 veterinary practitioners during the 39th Veterinary Practitioners Association of the Philippines Annual Scientific Conference held at the H2O Hotel at the Luneta Park in Manila on Friday, Morales, president of the La Liga Policy Institute (La Liga), said animal doctors can contribute greatly in revitalizing the agriculture sector by helping the country carve a niche in the fast-growing local and global organic-food market. Read more here
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May 28, 2011 EDITORIAL The only reason organic food has not really taken off the shelves is the high cost and the tedious task of producing them.\ But they are expensive only because it does not make much economic sense to farmers to grow them because of the non-use of fertilizers, pesticides, and other chemicals that would have guaranteed minimum infestation and maximum yield. Needless to say, the use of chemical farm inputs entails big money and alters the natural nutritional balance of the soil, if not permanently poisons it altogether with tragic and irreversible results. Read more here
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