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One of the mayor’s initiatives that she mentioned during the meeting with Saguntonians in California last month, was the propagation of Red Lady Papaya as an agricultural crop for Sison.
We learned recently that a seminar on seedling production for Red Lady Papaya and other high value crops was held in Sison last week. The Sison Agriculture office selected representatives from each barangay to be trained as extension-agriculturists. A couple of the representatives from Sagunto were Mr. Rolly Benosa and Mr. Daniel Pascua.
Rolly, who shared this information with the Sagunto Star, said that The Sagunto Vegetable Growers were one of the first to be trained by the seed company on the propagation of the red lady papaya five years ago. The mayor has since contracted with the same seed company to provide the seeds and technology for red lady papayas. Rolly said that “Saguntonians were the first to grow the red lady papaya and cherry tomatoes” so he is enthusiastic that “Sagunto growers should have the edge over the other barangays that still have to undergo training!”
Rolly adds that The Sagunto Vegetable Growers already had plans to grow the red lady papaya as an agri-business ever since they were trained by the seed company but many growers were hampered by the initial investment required. He is hopeful that with the mayor’s initiative, this plan will finally come to fruition.
We will update on the details of this initiative later as we receive more information.
Resource: Rolly Benosa
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oh wow nagimasen ti papaya Go Go Sagunto and make use all your backyards for planting that variety of papaya nagngina pay daytan dita market kasla met la garden plant dayta ta ti ammok ket dwarf da laeng. Ala Rolly agawaam ti ag model ngarud ta adda tuladen da ken adda agisuro umayak to met makibingay.
I have to say that the best papaya we’ve had was in Sagunto. My daughters and I are still dreaming of Sagunto papayas that we sampled last December. Hadn’t tasted anything as good since.
Hiwayman..
nagsamiten daytoy nga fruit, itsura na laengen ket makakatayak nga agbuybuya. mayat daytoy nga pagbiyagan kabarangayan natured ti pudot ken saan kasapulan ti padanom a kas ti pagay all year daytoy.. tateken yo nga mulaan dagita banbantay tayo apo agraman arubayan..
And that’s what I’m talking about!!!! Wouldn’t it be nice if the Red Lady papaya becomes synonymous with Sison? See, we can improve the town, develop the land, modernize AND still maintain the natural beauty of the town we all love so much. Thanks for sharing these wonderful news with us, kuya Rolly!
I’d like one of these days to visit Sagunto. Know it’s in Sison but please give me direction from the Main road. Agkabalyo ak nga sumalog from Baguio koma ngem it might take me a few weeks to get there, sadot daytoy nga donkey, hehe…I’ll borrow diay karag-karag nga Volks daytoy gayyem ko. Sapay koma ta better than da donkey. Cheers manen ah….
Agawidak metten ta agmulaak ketdi ti papaya – siguro nasam-it dayta ta kita na laengen ket nagsam iten.
Hahaha, TruBlue!
If not now, padasem to nga umay agbisita no 2008 Fiesta, napnapnon to ti Bagos from abroad ta Grand ReUnion…padasek met ti agawid. Cheers!
Don’t kill your poor donkey! How nice if you can drop by for a visit, sige, padasem ti apan maki-Halloween dyay. After you pass the river bed, you hit Agat, then past the cemetery is Artacho El-Hi on main road, turn left, past UCCP church, head towards the hills voila, adda kan ti Sagunto.
What month is your fiesta? The more people the better, from abroad pay ti bisita nga ado, naks! No adda naglaaw nga ongor ti kotse, siak daytan, baka tiliwen dak ti polis coz I’m disturbing da peace, hehe….Sige I’ll make some plans ngarud. Cheers as always and goodhealth to all…..
TrueBlue,
Ayaket, no sumalog ka nga maki fiestan to no last week ti December 2008 mangyeg ka ti gangsa ta agkaniao ka…ken agtadek kami met nga balikbayan (padasen a, nyahahaha!!).
TruBlue, ti fiesta ti Sagunto is always on Rizal Day, Dec. 30
I have some photos of Joji and Rika posing beside the red lady papaya trees in March 2004. But, the pics were shot using my cell phone so they are small and blurry. This variety could really withstand harsh weather conditions as it was a very dry summer that time, located upland and had no regular watering, yet the papayas kept bearing fruits. Here in Japan, there are two sources of papaya: Hawaii, solo papayas; and Okinawa, fruit shape similar to Phil. papaya.
They’ve just started cooking unripe papayas here, as the Okinawans, known to have the longest life span love to eat sauteed papaya or sauteed ampalaya.
Much ado about papaya…now let’s sing watermelon2, papaya2…….
those papaya trees are at rolly’s farm there in macoco. go check what he has now. last summer he had very tasty, juicy plump snake beans or utong nga saan nga kumbet no malaylay ken dadakkel kasla ramay, sweet corn,cherry tomatoes, cucumber etc.
hmn, i wonder when that veggie and fruit terminal project of mayor kimi be established? we’re getting ready for the crop planting and mass production…but hope we can peek at their target year.
This kind of papaya really taste good. Mng. Arthur Capuyan always deliver us some. My husband really loves it. Too bad Iam not really a papaya lover.
OOOps! taste good according to my husband kunak koma.