Administrative Order No.04, series of 2022. Guidelines on the Scaling Up the Use of Microbial-Based Fertilizers as Intervention to Reduce Cost of Production in Rice Farming.

This Regulation lays down provisions for the purpose of complementing the reduced use of inorganic fertilizers with the recommended rate of microbial-based fertilizers, sustaining and maintaining the production level in rice despite the reduction in the usage of inorganic fertilizer; and to reducing the dependency on imported inorganic fertilizers by promoting and supporting the scaled up application of microbial-based fertilizers. The implementing guidelines refers to microbial-based fertilizers usage, schedule of application and rate of application, description of microbial-based fertilizer, inorganic fertilizers, roles and responsibilities of regional field offices and microbial-based fertilizer supplier. This Regulation consists of 7 Articles.