To ensure food sufficiency in the countryside, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in the province of North Cotabato recently provided a vegetable farming starter kit with a combined amount of Php53,890.00 to Amazion Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Association.
Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer II Rodolfo Alburo said the farming kit received by the DAR-assisted organization was provided under the Buhay sa Gulay project.
“The Buhay sa Gulay project is designed as a self-help start-up livelihood project. It also aims to reduce poverty and eradicate hunger, particularly in marginalized urban barangays,” Alburo said.
Alburo said the organization was provided with a starter kit consisting of vegetable seeds, fertilizers, and gardening equipment.
Felix Ajoc, Jr., President of Amazion ARB Association is grateful for the various vegetable seeds they received from the DAR including the cans of eggplant, bitter gourd, and cucumber, and pouches of string beans and okra.
The kit also includes six sacks of 16-20-0 and seven sacks of 18-46-0 fertilizers.
“The two units of battery-operated sprayer, seven units of hand sprayer, eight rolls of vegetable twine, two pieces of asarol (hoe), seven rolls of atlas tie given to us will be a big help in improving our crops,” Ajoc said.
The members of Amazion ARB Association will be planting various vegetables to at least half of a hectare of land to ensure a sufficient and continuous supply of food in the local market.
