DepEd Promotes Versatile Mungbean

By ATBaylon

Vegetable Mungbean - corn planting sequence enriches the soil as shown in the picture above.

One of the highlights in the celebration of World Food Day in October month is the distribution of mungbean seeds. DepEd Makato District Teacher II, Eriberto T. Castillo, supported by DepEd elementary teachers of Makato Integrated School headed by Lourdes V. Tesoro, Principal II will distribute mungbean seeds to Brgy. Nutrition scholars (BNS) and Child Development Workers of Makato, Aklan. They approved this activity during their staff meeting held recently.
Mr. Castillo recommends mungbean or mungo as priority crop/plant for food production in home and community project. “Due to its nutritional value, mungo is primarily consumed as food, use as feeds for livestocks, for green manuring and industrial raw material. It is important plant in intercropping, rotation cropping and relay cropping. It enriches the soil, conserves soil fertility due to its root nodules nitrogen-fixing bacteria.” Castillo pointed out.
“Mungo crop rotation is needed to our dessert–turning plains of lowland rice farms polluted with chemical inputs. This contributes to global warming and adversely threaten food security. Planting mungo the whole year round is necessary to maintain continuous supply of nitrogen–fixing bacteria as inoculants.” Castillo stressed.
In addition to DepEd’s reading materials and national, regional and local newspapers used as references that made Castillo environment–friendly are local weekly news like Madyaas Pen being published “to fight famine and poverty.”
Castillo said, “God created man to manage the Earth. This task includes the care of all life on this planet. But human race, for the basic reason of being human, has failed. Hence, the results are catastrophic and threatening to our existence. Global warming, acid rain, air and water pollution, flash floods, drying rivers and lakes, dessert–turning plains. famine, extinction.”These are Castillo’s reasons for promoting versatile mungbean. /MP