Pakak Project: Organic Farming

"some people have been discouraging me for using only the materials we made during our natural farming training on my ricefields....they said i should have only used it on a small piece of land in case it doesn't work....but i tell them, i want to start healing my land now.....i want to start applying what we have learned now...

on a good harvest, which is May or June harvest, i get around 43 cavans, i set aside some for our consumption, and i sell the rest....sometimes i get paid 15,000 pesos...i use 10,000 to pay off the fertilizers, pesticides, etc that i get on credit with interest...2000 to 3,000 i use to pay for the hand tractor, fare, milling and other things....i barely have enough left to get basic necessities for my family....at least this time i don't owe anyone fertilizers or pesticides."
A comment from Nelson, one of our 5 farmers who decided to use only "homemade natural fertilizers and pesticides" on either all or some of their ricefields...we had a training on Natural Farming a few months back...thanks to Samaritan's Purse, Canada, and SEED Ministry....and we've been making our own IMO(Indigenous Microorganism), FPJ(Fermented Plant Juice), KAA(Kuhol/Shell Amino Acid), Calcium and Calcium Phosphate for our 5 demo ricefields since then....ALL EYES in our village and neighboring villages are on these ricefields....harvest will be in December.....Please lift these farmers and their fields up in prayers....we also come against rats, birds, insects and typhoons that will affect the harvest.....we know that if these farmers have a good yield, all the other farmers, at least in our village will want to do "Natural Farming" too.....they've been getting fertilizers, pesticides/insecticides they use for their ricefields on credit, with 10% monthly interest....after they pay off their credit, there's hardly enough left for the family.....

thank you, for your support and prayers.... God bless you all:)   pls see attached photos from our training and "demo ricefields":)
blessings and peace,
Chris, Cathee, Samuel, Miriam Mapes:)