As the world population cringes from rising fuel and food prices small planters from different parts of Negros Occidental are turning to divine intervention.
These farmers have been suffering because of high costs of fertilizers.
Nadie Arceo, United Farmers of Negros South Inc. president, said that the prices of fertilizers for sugarcane have increased more than a hundred percent.
Urea, one of the fertilizers they use, costs P900 as of October last year but now costs P1,800 per sack.
"Prices of sardines, milk, construction supplies have increased, almost all prices of commodities have increased but none of these commodities increased as much as fertilizers have. One of the fertilizers, the 18-46, increased by more than a hundred fifteen percent," said Arceo in the vernacular.
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