18/05/2019
Organic Farming - 2018:
Part I - Organic Inputs, Organic Rice/Corn Production
- Our mission to raise all organically grown produce needed increased organic inputs of carbonized rice hull (CHR), biochar from felled trees and stumps, oriental herbal nutrients (OHN), Calcium/Phosphate (CALPHOS), fermented plant juice (FPJ), fermented fruit juice (FFJ), harvested seawater from nearby beach, as we continue to move forward this year and beyond.
- Corn produced some yield but needed better methods of production and enrichment of the soil throughout its growth. The future growing of corn will primarily be as silage for the growing herd of cattle.
- Planting upland rice the old-fashioned way using "basisi" as posted earlier in 2017 was a success, but maintaining its growth was a different matter, our management failed miserably in not attending to this task, among other challenges it faced such as manpower, focus, and attention required, the rice field was overgrown with wild grasses rendering harvest at disappointing levels and not worth the effort to recover the costs. We plan on doing another pilot upland rice growing in 2019, with a selection of drought resistance, native rice varieties, and dedicating focused manpower to it.
On the other hand, the lowland rice varieties of Macasane and Perurutong, seeds acquired compliments of a friend of a friend of IRRI, were partially a success, with less than optimal yield again due to flooding of the rice paddies at the critical time of growth (climate change effect) and lack of focused attention to its growth and w**d maintenance.
- We made a radical decision to stop lowland rice production and gone into fishpond farming of tilapia, which in turn presented another challenge - 2018 Year-End Flash Flood effect...
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Our efforts to produce and consume our own organic inputs, production of organic rice and corn.
