Protected vegetable cropping in the Visayas, Philippines.
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- With drenching rain and typhoons for over half the year, growing healthy vegetable crops in the Visayas region of the Philippines is a real challenge. Now farmers are building low cost protected cropping structures that allow them to grow crops in the wet season. The system was tested through an ACIAR project and is now being adopted more widely. Language Cebuano and English.
Star Simple Living: Very informative video, shared this video to my students.
Woooo! This made me cry, Thank you everyone who is able to b part of this! Videos like this should be trending. Godbless you all!
@ACIARAustralia I salute you for having this initiative in helping our countrymen in the visayas region! Thank you very much for the support!
Pagka nindot ba uy.. Sana all may budget Para Maka garden ig ani
Visayas vegetables cropping, you are the best"....... keep up the good work !!!
sana po ipag patuloy yan ng Gobyerno sa buong Pilipinas"..........
The following is a transcript I made of this video. It will be used by agriculture volunteers in the JICA (Japan International Cooperation) program going to the Philippines. Thank you for making this video.
UA-cam video title: Protected vegetable cropping in the Visayas, Philippines.
UA-cam channel: ACIAR Australia
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Note: This video is in Cebuano and English. When captions are on the video, I transcribed it as s:… (screen: … text…). I did not include the Cebuano text.
00:12 s: Protected Vegetable Cropping Leyte, Philippines
00:16 s: Dr Gordon Rogers, University of Sydney.
G’day. Welcome to the wet season in the Visayas.
00:29 With drenching rain and typhoons for up
00:32 to eight months of the year, growing
00:35 healthy vegetable crops in this region
00:37 is a real challenge. Yields are low and
00:40 so are farmer incomes. But that may soon
00:45 become a problem of the past thanks to
00:48 the success of a protected cropping
00:50 project conducted at Visayas State
00:52 University and funded by the Australian
00:55 Centre for International Agricultural
00:56 Research. The project team has developed
01:00 easy to build low-cost protective
01:03 structures and they’re delivering
01:05 impressive results.
01:08 s: Dr Zenaida Gonzaga, Program Manager, VSU
We found bamboo was the cheapest, strongest material for construction and gives better protection for our crops.
01:18 s: What is good about these structures is that the increase in yield in the wet season
01:29 s: is two to five times compared to crops grown in the open field.
01:32 The funding, together with expertise from Australian
01:34 and Filipino scientists, has been used to
01:36 employ research staff, buy equipment and
01:39 consumables and to build structures.
01:44 So far 14 structures of varying designs
01:46 have been built both at the University
01:49 and on farms such as this one at Bontoc.
01:51 s: Lucio ‘Boy’ Gerona
The first two crops I planted where
01:54 lettuce and bitter gourds, or ampalaya, (‘goya’ in Japanese)
01:57 and then I had a good price because they
02:03 were planted during the rainy days. The
02:06 plants in the open are not so healthy as
02:09 compared to the inside. Boy Gerona
02:12 used the profit from his first crops to
02:15 repair his water pump and install a
02:17 trickle irrigation system. Before we used
02:21 to to get, ah, fetch (get) water from the river
02:25 bank and from that river I using that
02:28 carabao, carabao using that, this cart. We had to
02:33 fetch around 172 water jugs in the
02:37 morning and another 72 in the morning and
02:40 72 in the afternoon so 144
02:42 water jugs every day. The process of
02:45 mixed cropping will be used to buy fine
02:49 nets to enclose the structure to
02:53 protect my plants against insects so
02:57 that it will be a hundred percent
02:59 pesticide or insecticide free.
03:04 At Lao, Joseph Sanchez is ahead of his target
03:07 to recoup the cost of his structure in
03:08 one year. s: With what I got from the first cropping I was able to recover half the cost of the structure.
03:13 Joseph Sanchez. s: What I can say about the structure is that it can give high quality and high yields.
03:31 And aside from that, it also protects my health.
03:35 And in Cabintan, Noel Morales is renowned in the
03:38 district for his passion for new farming
03:40 innovations (and) has achieved yield increases
03:43 of more than 200%.
03:45 s: Because of this protected structure my yields have increased and the quality has improved.
03:51 s: Noel Morales
03:57 s: For example, my tomato yield per plant was 1.5kgs, whereas the plants outside yielded only 400 grams.
04:04 s: Noel’s tomato yield 2009 kg / plant. Open field - 0.4 House structure - 1.5
04:07 The project team has been
04:10 carefully monitoring all the trial sites
04:12 and the data they are collecting clearly
04:15 shows the advantages of growing
04:17 vegetables under protective structures
04:19 compared to the open field. s: Annual profit from vegetables Pesos per metre square. Open field - 9.7 Tunnel structures - 72.5 House structures - 80.0
04:23 Since it began in 2008 the project has expanded
04:26 with support from private organizations
04:28 including the East West Seeds company and
04:30 the Energy Development Corporation which
04:33 is financing the building of several new
04:35 structures.
04:38 s: Our farmers here would prefer the protected structure because here in our place it always rains.
04:42 s: Danilo Vitualla, EDC (PNOC)
04:50 s: So those structures are beneficial because they can plant vegetables when not many other farmers are producing.
05:04 Local government
05:07 units also play a key role.
05:14 s: The City of Maasin is helping in terms of providing farmers with training, seeds, fertilizers and chemicals through interest-free loans.
05:23 s: And we are also giving marketing assistance by buying their produce.
05:31 Everyone involved agrees that
05:35 protected cropping is a resounding
05:36 success but there is still more research
05:39 to be done (for) controlling pests and
05:41 diseases and making further improvements
05:44 to the structures.
05:46 s: We are finding ways to efficiently collect rainwater for use in the dry season.
05:53 s: We are also looking at ways to easily remove the plastic roofing during the dry season.
06:00 The project team is now also focused on
06:03 encouraging more farmers to set up their
06:05 own protected cropping systems.
06:08 s: To encourage farmers to adopt our technology we are conducting ‘farmer’s field days’
06:13 s: Dr Othello Capuno, VSU Vice President, Research
06:18 s: and we are asking Local Government Units to continue their support.
06:24 s: We are also inviting businessmen to buy products directly from the farmers.
06:31 s: The support of Local Government Units is very important,
06:39 s: first for funding to construct the structures,
06:49 s: second, for technical assistance because they have direct contact with our farmers. (some text on the screen repeats)
06:56 s: This project is a big help to the farmers and the economy in this region.
06:58 s: Dr Jose Bacusmo, VSU President
07:03 s: The success of this has gone far beyond our expectations.
07:18 s: We’re very grateful to the Australian Government,
07:21 s: ACIAR and partners, PNOC-EDC, East-West Seeds and also,
07:30 s: very importantly, the Local Government Units.
07:34 Because of this project and the new
07:36 technology that has been developed,
07:38 Filipino farmers here in Leyte can now
07:41 grow vegetables even in the wettest and
07:43 windiest of seasons. They will no longer
07:46 need to go to cities to look for jobs to
07:49 supplement their farm incomes and
07:51 importantly the whole community will
07:54 reap the economic benefits and the
07:56 health benefits of a reliable year-round
07:59 supply of fresh affordable locally
08:03 produced vegetables.
Credits / notes at the end of the video:
Daghang salamat
Farmers
Lucio ‘Boy’ Gerona
Joseph Sanchez
Noel Morales
Raymundo Ordiz
Alfredo Panchacala
Dante Nazario
VSU
Zenaida Gonzaga
Jose Bacusmo
Othello Capuno
Maria Lilia Vega
Jonathan Mangmang
Dhenber Lusanta
Pedro Armenia
Reny Gerona
Anabella Tulin
Lilian Nunez
City of Maasin
Amando Acasio
EDC
Danilo Vitualla
East West Seeds
Ana Daisy Monreal
Catherine Cotillas
Terri-Virna Tanquezon
Video production
Presenter: Gordon Rogers
Producer / Director: Sharron Olivier
Camera / Audio: Geramil Cordero
Editor: Darren Blin
Scriptwriter: Craig Skehan
Translators: Dante Margate, Maria Lilia Vega
Edit facilities: Anvil Media Pty Ltd
Video production funding
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
protectedcropping.com (September 2017 note: a google search of protectedcropping.com yielded zero results; similar sites came up)
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thank you very much for this very informative video! I am interested to adopt this technology in our farm. How much does it cost to construct the bamboo structure?
just the labor. bamboo is a monocot and a type of grass and grows everywhere in the tropics.
I would like to ask permission to use some of your video clips as part of our Inspirational Music Video called KAYA by the Tunemasters
I'd like to duplicate this technology in my farm. Where can I get the large sheets of plastic material? Regards to Joseph, Noel, Dr. Capuno & Dr. Bacusmo.
Maayong adlaw !
hi po, magkano ba ang gasto sa isang greenhouse? ung uv plastic na ginamit magkano ung? thanks. . .
I think this structure is expensive only few farmers can afford to put up that kind of protective structure...
Hello po, unsa nga kabag-on sa net ang inyong gigamit ani?
is these structures stands on heavy weathers such as typhoons or what are the steps need to be done to avoid damages?
Roberta Rodriguez i think signal #3 typhoons could rip this kind of roofing.
I doubt...
Asa mag sang silopin isang compaya?
Grabeng pollution 👎💨😷🏭 @4:46
that was a geothermal power plant.
Pls pass on this soil simple solution we all can do even ‘organise bigger groups’ and eliminate CO2 emmisiond down from 405 to 350 carbon footprint All buildings plant on roof tops all homes
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