Warning:
Global
warming is here! PILAR.
Officials of this town are pushing for more greening projects in Bohol to allay
the impact of global warming being felt in many parts of the province.
Vice-Mayor
Adolfo Hontanosas calls on barangay officials here, who undergone the Training
on Barangay Legislation (TBL), though the Vice-Governor's Office.
The
vice-mayor urged barangay officials to reiterate on the utilization of rice stalks
into organic fertilizer rather than leave these scorched.
For
his part, Vice-Gov. Julius Caesar Herrera, who was the guest during the culmination
of the training last week, said collective and decisive action is needed to mitigate
global warming that affects food security.
He
said scientific studies showed agriculture is highly sensitive to climate variability
and extreme weather disturbances, such as long dry spell and severe storms and
floods. These help shape the climate that is critical to farm productivity. Human
activity has already changed atmospheric characteristics, such as temperature,
rainfall, levels of carbon-dioxide (CO2) and ground level ozone.
Based
on the said study, global warming could spark off climate change thus, influences
agriculture and threatening food security.
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warming distorts the planting season pattern in the province. Hence, officials
here called on those concerned to avoid burning rice stalks after harvest as these
emits more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
It
already started embarking on greening the highways and massive tree-planting in
Carood watershed reforestation project covering several towns, apparently to sustain
the water sources for its huge irrigation projects --- the Malinao Irrigation,
Pilar town and Bayongan Dam, San Miguel town --- to irrigate more than 10,000
hectares of rice fields. | Herrera's
continuing call for more efforts such as legislation in the municipal level to
conserve and protect the environment including backyard gardening and tree planting
has paid off after several barangays here have started crafting ordinances making
backyard gardening compulsory for every household. Herrera, chair of the agriculture
committee of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, said that planting of trees and food
plants is needed to sustain the environment's temperature and food security.
In
Poblacion III of this city, global warming has been discussed during the barangay
assembly yesterday even as officials here urged residents to avert burning of
trees and other activities that contribute in warming.
Some
Sangguniang Bayans have started to realize it is needed as they enacted local
Ordinances making tree planting and backyard gardening compulsory. For instance,
Mayor Bert Salinas of Catigbian town recently passed an Ordinance mandating graduating
elementary and high school students to plant fruits and vegetables before they
graduate and maintain a three-hectare demonstration farm.
Other
municipalities also required couples to plant trees in their community prior to
securing marriage license. (RVO)
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