The Office of the Provincial Agriculturist of Negros Occidental is featuring various technologies on organic farming at its  booth at the left wing of the Panaad Stadium as part of the  eight-day Panaad sa Negros Festival.

Gov. Isidro Zayco and other local officials cut the ribbon during the opening ceremony on Saturday.

Provincial Agriculturist Igmedio Tabianan said that aside from the usual display and sale of organically-grown and probiotic products, the OPA is promoting farming technologies and practices without the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

More and more farmers in Negros Island and around the country have adopted these practices and have enjoyed their health and financial benefits, he said.

Tabianan said the OPA wants to share theselow-cost, low-tech, zero-waste, easy-to-do, environment-friendly, sustainable, and profitable technologies to as many farmers as possible.

Among the technologies featured at the OPA booth are  vermicomposting; rapid composting using trichogramma; carbonized rice hull; naturally-fermented concoctions; and integrated pest and insect management practices.

Other  features are the rice husk gasifier stove, an award-winning invention of a farmer-scientist in Iloilo City; and a one-of-a-kind egg incubator developed by a farmer-scientist in Aklan.

The OPA booth is featured during the Panaad festivities as an offshoot of the campaign to make Negros Island the “Organic Bowl of Asia.”

Negros Occidental bans the entry of living genetically-modified organisms or GMOs into the province.*

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