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Sustaining Productivity of the Hillsides of Negros Island Through Organic Farming : an IEM story

There is one thing different in the Benejewan ISF Farmers Association (BISFFA), from Don Salvador Benedicto, Negros Occidental, as compared to other upland farmers in the Philippines. While others are dependent on harvesting of and thriving on the remaining natural forests, BISFFA has taken on the challenge of making idle uplands productive over the long term. While others produce at the cost of resources and the environment, the BISSFA members have made the land productive while keeping it sustainable. BISSFA does this through organic agriculture. Their farms are part of a Certificate of Stewardship Contract that expired in 2003 but is being reapplied under Protected Area Community- Based Resource Management Agreement (PACBRMA). With many years of neglect and misuse, their land has become acidic and marginal, hardly responding even to the application of inorganic fertilizer.
Subject: 
Organic farming -- Success stories
File: 
PDF icon Organic Farming in DSB.pdf
Physical Location: 
CD ENRMP 2013 ss
Project Title: 
National Program Support for Environment and Natural Resources Management Project (NPS-ENRMP)
Publication Type: 
Success stories