Commercialization of biofertilizer proposed

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AgriSpecialist Inc. (ASI) plans to expand the production of biofertilizer to accommodate 100 percent of the country’s biofertilizer requirement on farms planted with rice and corn.

In his meeting with officials of the Board of Investments recently, Mario Labadan Jr., president of ASI, discussed the possible strategic collaborations in the commercialization of the country’s biofertilizer industry.

ASI’s facility located in Sta. Rosa, Laguna could be the first commercial-scale manufacturing plant for biofertilizer called Bio-N, a product developed by the University of the Philippines Los Banos-National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology.

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The product can potentially increase crop yields by 11 percent. Notably, five to six 200-gram sachets of Bio-N can replace two 50-kilogram bags of urea per hectare planted with rice.

With the product, farmers can save around P10,000 per hectare.

 

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