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Sepa launches 'Sustainable Organic Farming' projects
Kota Marudu: Sepa (Sabah Environmental Protection Association) has launched a "Sustainable Organic Farming" project to share organic farming techniques with farmers throughout Sabah in conjunction with its "Green Vision" to make Sabah an organic food producer.
"That way they can change the current way of farming using chemicals and pesticides. The pioneer projects are in Kg Batutai, Kota Marudu and Kg Tambuatuon, Kota Belud," said its president Wong Tack.
Wong, together with some committee members and keen followers were at Kg Batutai, Kota Marudu and joined the three farmers who harvested their organic crops joyfully.
He said early results are very positive and they are still monitoring the situation to fine-tune and improve on it.
Wong feels with climate change looming, the whole world will face food security problems.
But Sabah, he feels, is fortunate to still have good soil, suitable weather and relatively good environment and therefore has a huge potential to become an organic food production region.
Sepa has also introduced organic paddy farming in Kg Tambatuon where the results are also positive.
Wong hopes to make Kg Tambatuon in Kota Belud an organic rice-production centre.
Sepa hopes the successful pioneer projects will encourage more and more farmers in Sabah to join its programme, so that they can set up organic farms throughout the State and promote organic farming, to produce organic vegetables and rice for the people of Sabah.
Organic farming, Wong stressed, not only is good for our health, but at the same time protects our environment because at the end of the day, the chemicals that we use for farming will go into the river and water resources.
4 comments:
Semakin banyak pengguna yang risau dengan penggunaan racun serangga dan baja kimia yang digunakan dalam penanaman makanan seperti buah-buahan dan sayur-sayruan kerana ini boleh menjejaskan kesihatan. Oleh itu, ada petani yang mula menggunakan cara organik untuk penanaman seperti di Kundasang.
Program petanian organic yang dianjur oleh Sepa ini untuk menggalakkan petani untuk menanam dengan cara organik ini adalah usaha yang baik untuk menambah baik industri penanaman dan releven dengan usaha menjadikan Sabah negeri mesra alam.
organic agriculture is a production system that sustains the health of soils, ecosystems and people. it relies on ecological processes, biodiversity and cycles adapted to local conditions, rather than the use of inputs with adverse effects. organic agriculture combines tradition, innovation and science to benefit the shared environment and promote fair relationships and a good quality of life for all involved..
the best part of this project is, organic farming methods often require more labor than traditional farming, therefore it provides rural jobs..
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