Negros Occ. succeeds in sugarcane-rice intercropping

By Dolly Yasa

 

BACOLOD City – Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson checked the completed cycle of the Sugarcane-Rice Intercropping System Project at Hacienda Bagacay, in Brgy. Aranda, Hinigaran Tuesday.

The town of Hinigaran is the pioneer host of the project, a press statement from the capitol Public Information Office said.

The agricultural project is a collaborative endeavor of the Negros Occidental Office of the Provincial Agriculturist and Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) that was launched in June 2020 to help Negrense farmers become more productive and earn extra income.

The palay seeds were planted in the block farm of Hacienda Bagacay Workers CARPer Beneficiaries Association and are now ready for harvest after three months.

Lacson thanked the farmers for their cooperation that contributed to the successful result of the program.

He also said that it will be replicated in other towns and cities in the province because it is one way of ensuring food security amidst the pandemic that has been affecting the province.

With the governor were Sugar Regulatory Administration Board Member Dino Yulo and Hinigaran Mayor Nadie Arceo.

Provincial Agriculturist Atty. Japhet Masculino said that it is also part of maximizing the province’s 190,000 hectares of land devoted to monocrop sugarcane farming.