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by Purple S. Romero, November 7, 2008 - The Department of Agriculture (DA) has launched the first phase of its Organic FIELDS Support Program (OFSP Phase I) which adopts a three-pronged strategy to steer the local agricultural industry to organic farming. Organic farming cuts the dependence on chemical pesticides and fertilizers as it uses agricultural waste, compost and crop rotation to increase soil productivity. In a memorandum of agreement with Go Organic! Movement, a campaign startedby local people’s organizations (PO) in August 2008, the DA allotted P20 million for the initial stage of OFSP which would be implemented in Albay, Bataan, Camarines Sur, Nueva Ecija, Oriental Mindoro and Pangasinan from November 2008-March 2009. Read more here.
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