Construction work has begun on the country’s first organic agriculture school in Zamboanga del Sur province.

Mayor Nacianceno Pacalioga Jr. said the College of Sustainable Agriculture in Dumingag town in Zamboanga del Sur province will help ease the poverty of farmers and help protect the environment.

“Dumingag is an agricultural municipality. The economy is being driven by agriculture,” he said in an article posted on the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines news site.

He said organic agriculture is his centerpiece program, contrasting with the relatively “easy” farming based on chemicals.

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