{"id":6148,"date":"2025-11-18T16:02:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T08:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courageous-peach-squirrel.62-72-47-242.cpanel.site\/philippines-first-mobile-soil-lab-rolls-out-in-davao-occidental\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T16:02:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T08:02:43","slug":"philippines-first-mobile-soil-lab-rolls-out-in-davao-occidental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greeninc.ph\/philippines-first-mobile-soil-lab-rolls-out-in-davao-occidental\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines First Mobile Soil Lab Rolls Out In Davao Occidental"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Agriculture launched the country&#8217;s first Mobile Soil Laboratory in Don Marcelino, Davao Occidental, officials announced Monday (Nov. 17, 2025).<\/p>\n<p>The PHP42-million facility, housed in a 10-wheeler truck, brings advanced soil diagnostics directly to farmers&#8217; fields.<\/p>\n<p>Ma. Geneva Depra, chief of the DA-11 Soils Laboratory, said the mobile lab eliminates long travel and waiting times for soil analysis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing the MSL\u2019s data-driven advice, farmers can drastically reduce unnecessary fertilizer inputs,\u201d Depra explained.<\/p>\n<p>The laboratory tests soil chemistry, physical structure, microbiology and water quality. It provides tailored recommendations on fertilizer type, quantity and timing through soil health reports and soil cards.<\/p>\n<p>Four DA experts are conducting sampling, testing and capacity-building in Don Marcelino. The mobile lab will proceed to Malita, Davao Occidental next week. (PNA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nation\u2019s first Mobile Soil Lab begins operations in Davao Occidental, offering farmers practical tools and real-time data to improve yields and foster more sustainable agricultural practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment"],"zyndk8_nxtgen_metadata":{"nxtgen_comments":[{"1331":"nakaka proud naman to\r","1332":"amazing result for community \ud83d\udc9a\r","1333":"nice po sana dumaan sa amin \u2764\ufe0f\r","1334":"galing ng project\r"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greeninc.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greeninc.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greeninc.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greeninc.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greeninc.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greeninc.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greeninc.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greeninc.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greeninc.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greeninc.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}