Idle rice beds in Banaue rice terraces to be converted to a vegetable garden

Idle rice terraces here will soon be converted to gardens as the municipal government unit is set to implement Alternative Vegetable Production project.

Municipal Agriculture Officer Jimmy Cabigat said the LGU will distribute seeds to the 19 barangays here with idle ricefields. Farmers or households with malnourished family are the target clients of this project and they will be trained on how to manage vegetable gardens.

Funded by the Kenedy Round II, a program undertaken by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA)-CAR, the project which costs P.9M includes the creation of tree nurseries that will serve as source of fruit and forestry seedlings to help conserve the environment, as well as vegetable seedlings.

Cabigat disclosed that demonstration farms will also be established to showcase a vegetable production that will serve as the livelihood of farmers for the production of organic vegetables. “This will also advocate the use of organic farming,” he added.

This project is one way of fighting poverty and alleviate the economic conditions of the poor farmers here,” Cabigat said.

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