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creamy to light pinkish, then towards its death. Farmers during the demonstration
saw the effect of NPV when it infected the cutworm. NPV caused the cutworm to
bloat then burst excreting out oozing of body fluids with foul odor.
Kilakil expressly gave his thumbs-up to NPV. He added that NPV will play a huge role
in aiding farmers in particular and our environment in general. Also, NPV is well
suited for the farmers of Benguet and neighboring municipalities of Mountain
Province because of their similarities in vegetable crops. He cited, crucifers as top
vegetable crops produced in Benguet and adjacent municipalities of Mountain
Province because of their capacity to adopt torelatively cool temperature.
Among them is cabbage which is considered to be the lead vegetable crop grown in
the highland Philippines and has export potential. However, these crucifers are also
on top of the cutworms menu.
He added NPV created a huge impact to farmers practicing organic farming. Aside
from its potential to reduce the farmers production cost, it also helped and
will aid in improving the already acidic farmlands of Benguet and adjacent
municipalities of Mountain Province.
More possibilities
Kilakil also disclosed other undocumented discovery they had after frequent use of
NVP. They noticed that dead cutworms killed by NPV are good fertilizers when they
let those cutworms rot on soil. More, they learned that NPV can thrived over the soil,
thus, NPV can attack these cutworms after they hatched from their eggs. The
possibility might be endless for NPV, said Kilakil after sharing before this author
another discovery they had using NPV.
As of this writing, Kilakil unveiled their recent discovery on NPV. According to him,
NPV can also be used as biological enemy against plant lice or locally known as
Aphids.