Note, Sir SRO:
Today, I am looking for a volunteer farmer, or farm, where I can demonstrate my
personally discovered rotavator technique to produce an unbelievably high yield of rice with an unbelievably low cost – no,
no fertilizer of any kind, not even organic.
(image from Soil Master, soilmaster.com.tr)
I guarantee no
expense on the part of the farmer. Farmer, if you are going to volunteer your
farm, and if you already have a rotavator, that’s all we need. Ilocano ngarud! That’s
an Ilocano!
Yes, among the
rotavator makers of the world, as revealed by my continuous googling, the world
of rotavation knowledge is still limited. Indeed, the way I will use the
rotavator will create a rich trash mulch on the surface of the farm – and
automatically spread it all over the field. You have to see it to believe it!
Even if the yield
is comparatively low, you spend only for the fuel of your rotavator and even
that, you cultivate your field at little expense.
Still, I guarantee
you that the yield will be high, surprisingly high! Even shocking.
60 or so years
ago, I recall Enso Casasos, our
farmhand, when my father Lakay Disiong
was instructing the big Howard rotavator operator what to do. I intervened and
told the operator (I forgot to ask his name) to simply pass the machine over
the field.
What happened?
Many years later, on my visit to Asingan, Enso told me that when I instructed
the Howard operator that way, he was smiling on one side of his face (“umisisem
ti bangbangir”) – he was using very little fuel. Yet, surprise – the yield shot
up!
Enso himself used
his own rotavator to cultivate his field – following the example of the Howard
rotavator with my instructions. What happens when the rotavator blades intelligently
pass over the field? They cut those weeds and mix simultaneously with the soil
pieces in the same rotary motion. Automatic organic mulch!
Enso told me his
neighbor imitated what they saw him doing in his farming, everything, but they
had never equaled his yields. Why? Because he did not tell them The Secret
of the Rotavator that he had seen.
Today, the Secret
of the Rotavator is still a secret because I have not shown it to anyone. That
is why I need a volunteer farmer to show whether I am right or wrong. “If I am
right, no one remembers. If I am wrong, no one forgets.” I want to revise that
to this: “If I am right, no one forgets!”
Any volunteer farmer?
For you: “To see is to believe!”
For me: “To show is to make a believer!”@517
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