Evardone tells his constituents: Plant, plant and plant

By ALICE NICART (PIA Eastern Samar)
April 11, 2008

BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar  –  In his desire to alleviate the problem of an impending food shortage, Eastern Samar Governor Ben Evardone urges his constituents to plant, plant and plant root crops and vegetables.

This he said in the recent joint Peace and Order Council (PPOC) and Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council (PDCC) meeting. He stressed that it is high time for every family to be most serious in producing agricultural crops, that what is observed worldwide in scarcity of rice supply is but a wake up call to one and all.

“Every vacant lot must now be filled with plantations of all things edible,” was his apparent motivation for the public as the conference was covered live on air over Radyo ng Bayan DYES. “I urge every able bodied citizen to stretch his muscle and do away with the old traditional habit of being sluggish which has enslaved most hard-up families.

“I hope we will now realize the urgent need for all of us to keep moving and bring our bolos to the farm and plant cassava, camote and other vegetables” he said.  On this note he instructed Provincial Agriculturist Jess Agda to buy cassava cuttings and camote seedlings for farmers’ use, but Agda assured the Governor that the former are available in the locality while camote seedlings can be bought at Visayas College of Agriculture (VisCA).

He also mentioned of several parcels of lands even along the highways which for several decades have been left untouched and untapped for food production, thus he told the Municipal Agricultural Officer to help their coverage areas.