CValley farmers warned vs fake fertilizers
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BY VINCE JACOB VISAYA
TUGUEGARAO CITY (August 27, 2024)—The Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority (FPA) in Cagayan Valley has received numerous complaints from farmers about fake, unregistered and mislabeled pesticides and fertilizers.
FPA regional manager Leonardo Bangad, in a statement, said the FPA is moving to pursue the people behind the counterfeit agriculture products as well as traders selling products with expired certificates of product registration.
"It is a great help in catching the accused in complaints received from farmers such as selling them with strange colors, different packaging, and ineffective fertilizers and pesticides, reason for the FDA and law enforcement agencies to conduct surveillance and entrapment operations," Bangad said.
Bangad said ...