December 28, 2008Feta Corp. emissaries Willie Basilio and Bong Cortez started their Red Lady Papaya tour during the early morning of December 28, 2008. They visited their first big project, a 1.1 hectare which was planted with the elusive red lady papaya.
Half of the farm was already planted with 600 young red lady's, the second wave of planting is scheduled after New Year. The farm is expected to be planted with approx. 1,200 trees.
The group also visited the one month old red lady papaya plantation of Narcing Mangune and Rene Pablo located at the same area in Suklayin, Arayat.These farms are now receiving nutritional care from the Feta Corp. acquired BPN organic liquid nutrient.
The group is focusing in the marketing of BPN all over Central Luzon, and working in parallel in planting hectares of red lady papaya and hybrid BT corn.
Feta Corp. and a Taiwanese Agricultural firm which is very active in producing vegetables and fruits for more than 25 years in the country locked a joint venture during their meeting at Farm One.They will start to lease a 70 hectares of farmland in Suklayin, Arayat to be planted with BT corn and honey dew melon.
