CALOOCAN CITY, Dec. 13 (PIA) -- The Poverty Reduction, Livelihood and Employment Cluster (PRLEC) of the Metro Manila Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict rolled out over the weekend its urban agriculture project in Barangay NBBS Kaunlaran in Navotas City, which aims to boost food security and provide additional income to residents in the village.
Under the project residents will benefit from agriculture-related training programs plus allowances.
To recall, the PRLEC, chaired by Technical Education and Skills Development Authority-National Capital Region, is an inter-agency body that oversees and implements convergence program seeking to reduce poverty in urban poor communities.
PRLEC members including regional government agencies, representatives of the Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP), and Barangay NBBS Kaunlaran officials joined the opening ceremony of the urban agriculture project through a virtual conference.
In his message, Barangay NBBS Kaunlaran Chair Federico “Toto” Natividad Jr. lauded the TESDA-NCR, PRLEC members, and the PCUP for initiating and supporting the said project.
Natividad said they will be looking forward to seeing their community transformed into healthy green patches very soon through this urban farming development project.
Among the skills to be provided by the community-based training program include growing media mixing, sowing of seeds and proper management, container gardening, hydrophonics, composting and pest and disease management.
These competencies are envisioned to enable Navotas residents to transform their vacant lands into community urban farms through planting assorted vegetables, herbs, spices and common crops.
The community-based training program has also been perceived to be the start of a new movement to popularize and mainstream urban farming amid the popularization of "plantitos and plantitas," according to beneficiaries. (PIA NCR)
Source: Philippines Information Agency (pia.gov.ph)
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