MACARTHUR, Leyte – As of November 5, 2011, harvesting by Nicua Mining Corporation in rice fields which they rehabilitated, the firm was able to harvest a total of 155 sacks of palay.
This was revealed by Nicua Mining Corporation (Leyte Ironsand Corporation) officials during the visit of Board Member and committee chair on environment and natural resources Roque Tiu, representatives from the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) and the Provincial Agriculture Office.
The 155 sacks of palay were harvested from the 2.1 hectares of rice field that was fully rehabilitated by the mining firm.
The mining firm,which has rehabilitated 11 hectares of rice fields, is said to have its final harvesting on Nov. 22.
As the 2.1 hectares of land are already converted back to its original use as rice fields, the remaining one hectare was just planted with the legume but will be planted with palay.
About 18 hectares of rice fields were already mined by the mining firm, in the first ever rice field mining in the country, according to the Mines and Geosciences Bureau.
Moreover, it was noticed that the rehabilitation process that is being implemented by the mining firm was slow, as 11 hectares are already rehabilitated but only 3.1 hectares is fully rehabilitated as at this time.
Nicua officials reasoned out the occurrence of flooding was the reason why their rehabilitation procedure was slow.
To address this, they had elevated the areas that they had mined and will undergo rehabilitation process.
The mining firm it was learned, will conduct activities that include the drying of palay, repair of dikes, irrigation of paddies, harrowing, spreading of rice straws and construction of farm toilets.
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