DAR ensures food security in North Cotabato through distribution of farming starter kit

The members of the Amazion ARB Association as they receive their vegetable farming starter kit from DAR-North Cotabato.

To ensure food sufficiency in the countryside, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in the province of North Cotabato recently provided a vegetable farming starter kit with a combined amount of Php53,890.00 to Amazion Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Association.

Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer II Rodolfo Alburo said the farming kit received by the DAR-assisted organization was 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,” Alburo said.

Alburo said the organization was provided with a starter kit consisting of vegetable seeds, fertilizers, and gardening equipment.

Felix Ajoc, Jr., President of Amazion ARB Association is grateful for the various vegetable seeds they received from the DAR including the cans of eggplant, bitter gourd, and cucumber, and pouches of string beans and okra.

The kit also includes six sacks of 16-20-0 and seven sacks of 18-46-0 fertilizers.

“The two units of battery-operated sprayer, seven units of hand sprayer, eight rolls of vegetable twine, two pieces of asarol (hoe), seven rolls of atlas tie given to us will be a big help in improving our crops,” Ajoc said.

The members of Amazion ARB Association will be planting various vegetables to at least half of a hectare of land to ensure a sufficient and continuous supply of food in the local market.

DAR sineguro na may sapat na pagkain sa North Cotabato sa pamamagitan ng pamimigay ng farming starter kit

Upang maseguro na may sapat na pagkain sa kanayunan, ang Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) sa lalawigan ng North Cotabato ay namigay kamakailan ng vegetable farming starter kit, na may kabuuang halaga na Php53,890, sa Amazion Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries’ Association.

Ayon kay Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer II Rodolfo Alburo ang farming kit na tinanggap ng isang DAR-assisted organization ay ipinagkaloob sa ilalim ng Buhay sa Gulay project.

“Ang Buhay sa Gulay project ay nakadisenyo bilang isang self-help start-up livelihood project. Layunin nito na mabawasan ang kahirapan at kagutuman sa mga kanayunan,” ani Alburo.

Sinabi ni Alburo na ang asosasyon ay tumanggap ng starter kit na kinabibilangan ng binhi ng gulay, pataba, at mga kagamitan sa paghahalaman.

Nagpasalamat si Amazion ARB Association President Felix Ajoc, Jr. sa mga tinanggap nilang iba’t ibang binhi ng gulay mula sa DAR kasama na ang dela-delata ng mga talong, ampalaya, pipino at sako ng sitaw at okra.

Kasama rin sa kit ang anim na sako ng 16-20-0 at pitong sako ng 18-46-0 na pataba.

“Ang dalawang yunit ng battery-operated sprayer, pitong yunit ng hand sprayer, walong roll ng vegetable twine, dalawang asarol, pitong roll ng atlas tie na ibinigay sa amin ay malaking tulong upang mapagbuti namin ang aming mga pananim,” ani Ajoc.

Ang mga kasapi ng Amazion ARB Association ay magtatanim ng iba’t ibang gulay sa kalahating ektarya ng lupain upang maseguro na may sapat at patuloy suplay ng pagkain ang lokal na pamilihan.