Inspired by our very first harvest from the Saba banana we have experimentally planted in late 2010, my wife and I decided to dedicate about an hectare in the northeastern section of the farm to growing this Filipino staple. It looked that everything was in place; the spacing of the Carabao mangoes planted there over 3 years ago were wide enough for inter-cropping and it’s the season of rain - the ideal time for planting, but the over pouring monsoon made the soil too clayey and difficult to rotovate. The rented Tractor backed-out just a few hours after it started! Manual digging became labor intensive; taking a lot more time than we have expected.
The area was wide enough so we looked to exhaust around 500 pieces. The rub was asking around for friendly supplier of corms that sells also at a friendly price. Ruth Avila, a good friend from Quezon province and a co-fellow at the Rarefruit Society of the Philippines ([email protected]), can sell her extra corms and can ship them too at a good value but transporting them from the pick-up point would be a challenge and may even cost more than the actual price of the merchandise. It was a good thing that the neighboring farm offered to give planting materials for free otherwise we have to spend a lot more than we have reserved for this project. A provision for a simple irrigation system is on the plans; we are hoping to install before summer of the coming year.
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