The Department of Agriculture in the Cordillera Administrative Region (DA-CAR) has earmarked PHP8 million to boost urban gardening projects here as part of efforts to attain food sustainability.<\/p>\n
“This is part of the DA’s effort to ensure that vegetables will be available to those in the urban areas anytime, which is also a food sustainability initiative of the department,” Emy Lou Cunning of DA-CAR’s National Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture Program, said in a media interview on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Urban agriculture involves cultivating vegetables, herbs, spices, root crops, and fruits, as well as raising small livestock within city environments.<\/p>\n
Cunning said there are five community gardens and five “Gulayan sa Paaralan” projects in Baguio City that are set to be completed this year.<\/p>\n
The five community gardens are being managed by Barangay Loakan Proper, North Sanitary Camp Farmers Association, Ibay Urban Garden Association, Barangay Lopez Jaena, and Barangay Sto. Tomas Central.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the five schools involved in the project are Magsaysay Elementary School, Alfonso Tabora Elementary School, Crystal Cave Integrated School, Baguio City National high School, and Holy Ghost Extension Elementary School.<\/p>\n
“Included in the provision that they will receive are agricultural supplies, community garden technologies and technical assistance,” Cunning said.<\/p>\n
In an earlier statement, Marcelina Tabelin, chief agriculturist at the City Veterinary and Agriculture Office (CVAO), said the initiative aims to strengthen school-based food production, promote sustainable urban gardening practices, and enhance nutrition awareness among students.<\/p>\n
Lawyer Jennilyn Dawayan, DA-CAR regional director, in an earlier interview, said they have initiated several programs to encourage food production in all sectors in the community.<\/p>\n
“If even small pots and spaces in households will be used to produce even a small quantity of vegetables that families can harvest when needed, it will be an added food produced by the country,” she said. (PNA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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