So far our Goducate workers have been able to produce large quantities of quality organic fertilizer from unwanted grass and vegetation using our hard-working earthworms (African night crawlers).
However, the price that our workers get from the buyers of organic fertilizer is low. This problem of being squeezed by middle-men is one of the main reasons why Asian farmers are stuck in the poverty cycle. To overcome this problem, our Goducate team is presently working with a partner to find the right markets in Manila and abroad.
Another way we hope to bypass middle-men is to use the organic fertilizer ourselves. One of our workers tested the quality of our fertilizer by planting a row of long beans in his garden. He fertilized some of his plants with our fertilizer and the others with “normal” fertilizer. All the other conditions were identical – same seeds used, same soil, same method of planting and tending – so that the only difference was the fertilizer used.
The result was quite amazing. The plants that were fertilized with our organic fertilizer had long beans that were almost twice as long and more than twice as thick as the ones that were fertilized using “normal” fertilizers.
We will be further developing our production of organic fertilizer and growing of vegetables in our new model-farm in Laguna. We hope to encourage the poor to use the simple methods that we develop to produce good food for themselves. We will also be using these methods to teach our Goducate trainee workers in our Goducate Campsite in Iloilo to produce food for themselves.
One of Goducate’s main means to help poor Asians to help themselves is to help them to feed themselves with decent food.
Goducate believes that every child deserves decent nutrition and decent education.