Why Filipina Lorie Pablo Daquioag’s Happy Concoction Is The New Salt Of The Earth – In Mindanao, The Filipinas Are Reinventing Organic Farming!

This is excellent news – Women in the Philippines are now reinventing organic farming! So says Jun N Aguirre in his latest article, “How Tulunan Women Are Reinventing Organic Farming” (10 Oct 2022, Daily Tribune, tribune.net.ph). No, the women are not from my Luzon – Tulunan is in their Mindanao. (Mr Aguirre is from the Visayas.)

As I see it, “Reinventing” here means “making it easy & rewarding to do everyone would want to do it.”

What exactly are Tulunan women doing to reinvent organic farming? They are converting food waste into organic fertilizer in just 3 days – instead of 3 weeks!

They are using the Compost Activator Solution (CAS) concocted by Lorie Pablo Daquioag, a satellite engineer, native of Tubungan, Iloilo. The activator comes in a planting kit that includes 1,000 mL of CAS, an up-cycled 15L waste bucket, 3 packs of seeds, 10 pieces of planting pots, compost soil, and a 250-mL measuring cup. The complete planting kit is an innovation by itself, and a savior – you cannot say you have no farm or garden to grow any crop or vegetable.

Mr Aguirre’s report says:

Based on initial findings, the kit can help reduce biodegradable waste by 87 percent in six weeks. [Ms] Daquioag said crops undergoing the CAS treatment [produce foods that] turn out to be heavier and bigger, with more nutrients by as much as 32 percent.

Currently, every urban mom can spend at least a cost-efficient $79 a year using the W4G planting kit. [After which] they could have savings of as much as $200 a year from buying veggies and utilizing the 482 kilograms per year of bio-waste used for organic farming.

Waste not, want not!

According to Philippine waste volume data, in 2021 the country generated 56.12 million tons of biodegradable waste. Some 10.45 million tons [of those] came from urban households.

So! Today, Household Waste can be quietly & quickly turned into Household Wealth. I Filipino creative writer say Filipina Lorie Pablo Daquioag is the Modern Wonder Woman not only of her country, not only of Asia, but the Whole Wide World. Promised Land!
(“Promised Land” from davidjeremiah.blog)

I now happily go back to Mr Aguirre’s introductory lines coming from the Philippine trio ASIN:

“Lapit, mga kaibigan at makinig kayo
Ako’y may dala-dalang balita galing sa bayan ko
Nais kong ipamahagi ang mga kwento
At mga pangyayaring nagaganap sa lupang ipinangako.”

My translation is this:

Come closer, all my friends and listen
I bring with me news from my town
The stories I wish to share with you now
And happenings in The Promised Land.

I can see it: “The Promised Land” that ASIN is singing about is here and now. “ASIN” (Pinoy for “salt”) is the popular Pinoy folk rock band of Mike Pillora Jr, Cesar Bañares, and Lolita Carbon. “ASIN” comes from the original band name “Salt Of The Earth” (song popularized by Joan Baez). Today I say, Ms Lorie’s concoction is today’s Salt of the Earth!@517

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