Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol has set a 45-day deadline for a nationwide soil-mapping scheme after reprimanding officials of the Department of Agriculture (DA) for the continued use of outdated soil analysis data.
In a statement entitled “Wrong data, wrong planning,” Piñol said that DA personnel admitted to still using 40-year-old soil samplings in their programs to prepare for the effects of climate change and identification of land suitable for cropping.
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