D.A., maglalaan ng P10-B para sa pagpapatayo ng mga solar-powered irrigation system at soil...

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00:00The Department of Agriculture will contribute P10 billion

00:04for the construction of solar-powered irrigation systems and soil rejuvenation.

00:10According to the DA's request,

00:13President Ferdinand R. Marquez, Jr. will prepare projects for the next three years

00:20that can water 160,000 hectares of sugarcane plantation

00:27with 16,000 units of solar-powered irrigation with shallow-tubed wells.

00:33Soil rejuvenation is also included in the projects

00:36where massive liming will be done in some plants to lower the soil acidity.

00:43Soil rejuvenation may start in October

00:47if the funds for this project are already available.

00:50The production of sugarcane in the country

00:52may increase by 180,000 metric tons

00:57if the solar-powered irrigation system and soil rejuvenation

01:03that will help to lower the country's dependency on imported sugar is started.

01:09A little over a third of the whole industry.

01:14And the net result of this would probably be a yield increase

01:20of about P7.7 billion a year.

01:23Also, we also proposed a soil rejuvenation program

01:28taking into consideration that most of the farms in Batangas and in Tarlac

01:32have a very low pH level of only 4.5. It's highly acidic.

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