Planting Tree Before Wedding Date

Planting Tree Before Wedding Date

Plant a tree and get married at city hall. This is the message Iloilo City mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog to the marrying couples. He advised them to first plant a tree before he may officiate a civil wedding rite for them starting July.

As proof of compliance, the marrying couple may secure a barangay certificate duly signed by a barangay official showing that they have planted a tree before their wedding date.

Mabilog confirmed that he has revived the old practice of requiring couples to plant a tree before marriage. He will also require a barangay certificate of tree planting soon before a mayor’s permit is issued at city hall.

Mayor Mabilog said, he wanted the community to have a stake in greening the environment and their commitment to help mitigate climate change.

In Switzerland, planting a tree before getting married is an old custom and tradition.

Iloilo Provincial Agriculture Trains Farmers
Army Worm Control

The Iloilo Provincial Agriculture Office , Iloilo City said that farmers in the province are ready for army worm attack as they are trained for it, provincial agriculturist, Dr. Ildefonso Toledo said. Iloilo farmers are ready for these agricultural pests and have been armed with proper trainings to deal with these moth larvae.

The provincial agriculture and Department of Agriculture (DA) have been training farmers in Iloilo of integrated pest management for years. Iloilo farmers are fully aware of how these army worms propagate, Toledo added.

The farmers are also taught of how to defend their crops against these army worms, he added.

Moreover, the DA has been encouraging farmers to practice organic farming and avoid using chemicals. The farmers are also urged to raise ducks and poultry which are natural enemies of pests like the army worms. (PNA)/MP