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Manila Bulletin, Tuesday,
September 7, 2004 |
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Lawyer vows
support for pomologist's bid to push new fruit tree-growing
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by Magtanggol
C. Vilar |
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PALAYAN CITY - Pomologist Bernie Dizon has found solid
backing for his lifetime quest for high-value fruit tree
production through the multiple-roots technology in Nueva Ecija.
Lawyer Romeo T. Capulong, who hails from Barangay San
Miguel (formerly Parukot), Quezon town, has volunteered to
support Bernie, his townmate, in his unceasing efforts to
transfer the technology to the fruit farmers with the end in
view of maximizing income and possibly boost the economy. |
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Capulong is president of the Public Interest Law
Center (PILC) and interim judge of the United
Nations' International Criminal Tribunal for the
Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) with the equivalent rank of
justice.
Capulong has pledged to support Dizon in the
latter's effort to call national attention to the
high-value fruit tree propagation as one source of
generating employment |
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dollar-earner. "I will be your legal counsel in your fruit
tree propagation," the topnotch international lawyer said. |
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Calling multiple-roots mango seedling as "pro-poor," Dizon
said he will convince his province mates to turn to
multiple-rooted seedlings of high-value fruit trees such as
mango, lanzones, pomelos and even durian.
Without digressing from the propagation of rice and
onion, the main industries of Nueva Ecija, Dizon said that a
third alternative is the generation of employment in the
farms with the production of seedlings of high-value fruit
trees.
Dizon said that in his more than 30 years of
specialization in the field of fruit tree propagation, mango
trees have proven to be sturdy, easy-to-care and much
productive if given proper care.
Coming second only to coconut, the fruit of mango tree
commands a good price - be it green or ripe, in the form of
juice or dried, he said.
At the CLSU-Dizon techno-demo farm, durian, mangosteen,
Davao pomelo, rambutan, lanzones, lychees, chokanan,
Guimaras and Golden Queen mangoes from Taiwan and other
exotic fruit trees are growing luxuriantly and fruiting
excellently well.
"All it takes is the right technology from planting
time to the fruiting period," Dizon said. He is disheartened
by the fact that the fruit industry has remained
underdeveloped although "we have already identified and
produced the best fruits in each region."
He said that high-value fruit trees that are the pride
of Davao in Mindanao can now be grown productively and
profitably in Luzon and elsewhere, saying that such
money-making varieties of Davao Magallanes pomelo, durian,
longkong lanzones and mangosteen are making wave in Batangas,
Quezon, Laguna and Nueva Ecija.
A graduate of CLSU, Dizon said he discovered the soil
of Nueva Ecija as exceptionally fertile and conducive to
mango planting. |
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