President Duterte has given the Department of Agriculture (DA) the green light to start a national health soil program (NHSP) meant to rehabilitate the country’s soils.
This is to sustainably increase the country’s crop production amid the consistent increase in food prices worldwide.
The program, which will begin this year until 2023, will receive a funding of P523.27 million. It will institutionalize the agency’s national soil monitoring and rejuvenation program, establish modern mobile soil laboratories to monitor soil health, improve soil analysis for macro and micronutrients and develop manuals to improve the indicators used to check soil health.
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