Maasin City, Southern Leyte-Two hundred thousand (200,000) Robusta coffee seedlings are distributed to abaca farmers in Maasin whose abaca plantations were wiped out by the bunchy top virus in recent years. The distribution has started in time for the planting season last July up to the end of September of the current year.
This was disclosed by a staff of Congressman Roger Mercado?s District Office who does not want to be named. He said the aforementioned coffee seedlings were planted at Mercado?s nursery in Brgy. Bugo where newly-planted trees of different …