DASecretary William D. Dar said the adoption of the implementation example set by DA-PhilRice under the Adopt a City or Town Project will strengthen our strategies to stabilize vegetable supplies and prices.
The Project seeks to promote and support massive vegetable gardening in public areas, idle private spaces and residential backyards; coordinate with partner agencies, companies, associations and consolidators willing to collaborate with and support DA; put together component activities like crop diversification; establish community food hubs, rice-vegetable techno demo, seeds and seedlings distribution; and provide innovative products and sustainable services that will help vegetable farmers and barangay households to survive, reboot, and grow.
Sec. Dar re-issued the guidelines on Jan. 21 and directed all bureaus, attached agencies, and corporations to implement the project following the success of the DA-PhilRice’s PAG-AHON (sa Palay at Gulay – may Ani, Hanapbuhay, Oportunidad at Nutrisyon) Project in Lupao, Nueva Ecija last year on massive gulayan sa barangay.
PAG-AHON Project Coordinator Roel R. Suralta stressed the need to ensure food security in Lupao and help stabilize food and vegetable supplies and prices in metropolitan areas.
