To reduce dependence on imported chemical fertilizer which costs the country P10 billion a year, Senator Cynthia Villar gave anew composting facilities.
“The current global demand greatly affects the entry of fertilizer imports in our country. This caused limited local fertilizer supply that influenced the escalation of local prices,” noted Villar, chairperson of the Senate Agriculture and Food Committee.
“The Philippines lost to super typhoon Ondoy the only producer of fertilizer found in Leyte.”
The legislator related that the Philippines lost to super typhoon Ondoy the only producer of fertilizer found in Leyte.
The lawmaker has been allocating an annual budget for the procurement of composting facilities which are distrbuted nationwide by the Bureau of Soils and Water Management (BSWM), an attached agency of the Department of Agriculture.
“A composting facility turns bio-degradable wastes like kitchen wastes into organic fertilizer.”
“Aside from the huge savings, a composting facility helps reduce the volume of trash thrown in dumpsites,” the lady senator said during the turn-over and launching of the use of the three composting facilities in Brgy. Zapote 5, Bacoor City, Cavite.
“A composting facility turns bio-degradable wastes like kitchen wastes into organic fertilizer. Each composter can produce one ton organic fertilizer per month,” said explained.
Villar has provided her home city Las Piñas with 89 composting facilities which reduce the local government’s expenses on waste disposal, even saving P300 million a year.
She enjoins the public to share her passion to maintain a clean and healthy environment while giving jobs to our people and savings to our country.
