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. (more…)
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