oday I went to mountain Province, beside our benguet province.
It was very far... it takes 3 hours from here.
I visited in DOLE contract farmer in mountain province.
They are 15 labors.
They are harvesting Romain Lettuce twice a week.
2t/harvest. Monday and Thursday.
Then they bring their vegetables to La Trinidad.
They contracted since 1995.
They can harvest 7 times a year.
It is romain lettuce.
So they take only 1.5 month for harvest from transplanting.
They are spraying only 3 times in crop season.
Because they are using their compost every crop season.
They are using vegetable garbage and alnos leaves.
They are selling to DOLE 50 pesos per kilo.
They are using fertilizer for watering.
It's used 5 times in a day, in average.
It depends on the weather.
They are not getting any materials from DOLE.
Only technology and some seed which you cannot get in Philippines.
They have very good soil and management.
But I cannot believe they can plant 7 times in a year,
with they have none soil problem, and soil diseases.
But they can manage using some secret.
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