Manila, Feb. 19 -- The Department of Agriculture will commission a corn demonstration farm using solar-powered irrigation technology in Dangcagan town in Bukidnon, Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Pinol said Tuesday.
Pinol said the 10-hectare demo farm, which will be commissioned next month at the Department of Agriculture's (DA) Upland Agriculture Research Centre in Dangcagan, will also use the so-called fertigation system, an advanced farming technology where soil nutrients and fertilizers will be applied by mixing these with irrigation water in the reservoir.
The nutrients and fertilizers will then be distributed through the drip irrigation method.
The demo farm and the solar-powered irrigation system (SPIS), costing PHP3.5 million, "is...