Ilocos Norte Watermelon Clustered Farms Hit PHP9 Million Net Profit

Ilocos Norte Watermelon Clustered Farms Hit PHP9 Million Net Profit

Watermelon farmers in Barangay Casilian, Bacarra, Ilocos Norte are celebrating a windfall after earning a combined PHP9 million in net profit just two months after planting high-yielding varieties on a 50-hectare clustered land. Fredie Marc Bagaoisan, president of the Zanjera Casilian Irrigators Association, Inc., said the success was largely due to the provincial government’s clustered farming program, which pooled the resources of 93 farmer-me…