Clan leads growing ginger in Kalinga

TABUK CITY, Kalinga: As the corn craze continues to sweep across the area obliterating little that remains of the once thick forest and coffee plantations, the Gunaban clan in Nambukayan is converting to ginger.

There is a difference between turning a coffee plantation into corn land and a ginger patch: in the former, trees including acacia and naturally grown types like narra in the case of Kalinga, are mowed down; but in the latter, much of the shade trees are spared because ginger loves partial shade.