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How to Live Cheap in the Philippines: ow.ly 345308 VOALearningEnglish captioned, subtitled, videos, voa, learning, special, english, report, development, agriculture, food, farming, gardening, health, medicine, higher, education, international, students, elementary, secondary, tertiary, university, college, economics, finance, american, business, communication, culture, download, history, foreign, controlled, language, learn, mp3, music, news, plain, radio, simplified, simple, speech, linguistics, teach, teacher, esl, efl, teaching, texts, transcripts, tv, united, states, voice, of, america Phone Call About Fertilizer Could Be a Big Help to Philippine Rice Farmers This is theVOA Special English Agriculture Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http Advice on how much fertilizer to use will soon be just a phone call away for rice farmers in the Philippines. The Philippine Department of Agriculture and the International Rice Research Institute plan to launch a free service in September. Farmers will call a number and a recorded voice will ask them simple questions in Tagalog or other languages including English. For example, to get fertilizer guidelines for the wet season, they press one. For the dry season, they press two. Farmers will be asked about the size of their field and how many bags of rice it produced last year. What about natural sources of fertilizer? Does the farmer return rice straw to the field? Is the field near a lake or river that floods, or in a low area ...

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