Sultan Kudarat farmers to launch "pinakbet garden"
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in the province of Sultan Kudarat recently handed out various farm inputs and tools to Silang Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Association (SARBA) to launch a vegetable gardening project in the town of Bagumbayan.
Dubbed as “pinakbet garden” by the farmer-members of SARBA, a DAR-assisted organization, this project is expected to provide additional income to the farmers and become a part of the town’s sustainable food source amidst pandemic.
Vegetable crops such as eggplant, okra, string beans, squash, and tomatoes among others would be planted to a 5,000-square meter lot in Barangay Silang and are seen to be harvested within three to four months.
Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer II Mary Jane Aguilar said the farming kits, consisting of various vegetable seedlings, fertilizer, and tools, were 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,” she said.
Aguilar added that Buhay sa Gulay Project is implemented by the department nationwide to help the government address food security in the country as well as provide the farmers with an additional source of income.