Are cocolisap-infested coconut trees healing?

Saving the coconut tree seems to be a done-deal, that is, if you listen to the voices of plant scientists who believe in organic and natural farming. This means that nature is healing the coconut trees that are beset by the cocolisap or the coconut scale insect.

Environmentalists are saying that there is now no need for the chemical cures that are being injected into the trunks of ailing coconut trees and which is costing the government millions of pesos.

Here’s a letter sent by one such activist: 

“My name is Lino S. Cortes. I have a PhD in Genetic Biochemistry from the University of Missouri in Columbia. I have a free school situated in the Morong/Teresa boundary where I have been teaching Zero Pesticide Agriculture, an alternative USDA NOP (United States Department of Agriculture National Organic Program) since 2011.

“I am a retired US citizen who took my BS and MSc in Agriculture from University of the Philippines’ College of Agriculture in Los Banos, then went to the US in 1963 and never came back here until I retired in 2004.

Plants with proper nutrition

“I suffered a massive stroke at same time as FPJ (Fernando Poe Jr.), but survived the event that allowed my brother to verify his discovery in agriculture that indeed plants with proper nutrition are not affected by herbivory pest attacks nor diseases.

“A review of this discovery is in [email protected] and my educational entries in Iap-C.S.E.A.R page of my Facebook account (Lino S. Cortes).

“The faked research of a PCA researcher in the 1980s caused sodium chloride to be used in upland plantations of coconuts all over the Philippines. According to the Mulder’s Chart taught to all beginning students of soil fertility, Na (sodium) and K (potassium) are antagonist, Na being larger in atomic size. 

“Na also defloculates the ‘house of cards’ structure of clay. It cements the clay micelles in to an impervious to water-soil surface, meaning that water cannot enter the root zone and impacts the trees’ nutrition and causes flooding in the valleys. 

Apoptosis response reaction

“If potassium is unavailable to the trees, the stomata closes, thus CO2 can’t enter. Like somebody pinching your nose shut, the plant begins an apoptosis response reaction. It is dying for lack of an essential nutrient for photosynthesis (the von Liebig law).

“The plant does this even if only one element is missing. It generates what is called in biochemistry as the Yang Cycle, which is the pathway for ethylene synthesis to be produced by the plant. Ethylene is the signal to call the ‘suicide assistants.’ The plant does not want a prolonged death period. 

“Removing the pests is the old worn-out science of the ‘60s that still prevails in Los Banos, the turf very heavily protected by the CGIAR-UN (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research-United Nations) research consortium, IRRI (International Rice Research Institute), ICRISAT (International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid-Tropics), and all the Rockefeller-led NWO (New World Order) of America now joined by the Bill and Melissa Gates Foundation. 

“Coconuts are not an important source of diesel fuel, so it must be replaced whenever possible. Palm oil selections have been proven to yield 14,000 kgs of oil per hectare per year. Malaysia is ahead in hectarage. Oil palms are shallow-rooted and cannot thrive in the Calabarzon or Bicol typhoon storm path belt.

“For the rest of the story on the role of minerals in modern photosynthesis, I have enclosed an article written by my student.

A student’s testimonial

“I am happy to let you know, Doc Lino, that the coconut trees that I am treating here in Atimonan positively responded to our technology. This morning, we had given another shot of Biogro after three months to augment the first application wherein the trees gave her best buds, an average of 14 buds per bunch, so more or less 30 nuts per tree per harvest, or three tons for 100 trees per hectare. 

“The trees show her new greenest leaves, although the yellow spots on the old leaves remain yellow, of course (I am not David Copperfield, by the way), and no sign of pests anymore.   

“I know the right time will come when they will see for themselves the best of our technology. O baka takot silang mawalan ng $ #,###,###.00.

“By the way, as we went home this afternoon taking the other way, we happened to pass by a coco plantation which the local PCA (Philippine Coconut Authority) here sprayed and applied with their kind of “fertilizer” we call NaCl.

“Well, the tree has also blossomed flowers, and in fairness, with buds of four. Sabi nga ng staff ni Kiko eh nung tayo ay nag meet two weeks ago, 40 nuts per tree per year ang sa PCA. Tama nga naman, the tree is in fear of dying, so it is the last shot for her to have descendants.”

One farmer at a time

“If I have to fix this country’s agriculture one farmer at a time, my students will help me. I have a radio interview two hours every Sunday, 6 to 8 p.m. at dzME 1530 a.m. The 10th of August episode on the role of minerals in photosynthesis is recorded.

“I also hold seminars at the Bernie Dizon Nursery at the PAWB, Parks and Wild Life (cor. North Ave. and the QC Memorial Circle) every first Saturday of the month teaching Trophobiosis, the science of Nutrition Biology which has been apoptosis-ied by the self-serving TNCs who support IRRI.

“IRRI has successfully castrated UPLB as a true science school from 1960 to now, and the ‘scholars’ there were brainwashed to inutility with permission from the Office of the President who hold the IRRI report signed by Marcos (see the Burton-Oñate Terminate IRRI report).

“I am writing you because we have the same goal: to eliminate pesticides from our environment. Let us go back to the old agriculture driven by water, carbon dioxide, sunlight and a complete mineral supply.

“My group has presented this evidence to Sen. Kiko’s staff more than six weeks ago, but they are overwhelmed by the Los Baños science of toxic rescue. 

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