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The Cordillera Administrative Region’s Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG-CAR) has once more asked barangay officials to encourage locals to practice backyard gardening so they can feed their families.

“We are urging barangay authorities in the region to construct community gardens in support of the present administration’s major effort to combat hunger and achieve food security,” said Araceli San Jose, regional director of the DILG-CAR, in a phone interview on Monday.

Memorandum Circular 2023-001, titled “Implementation of the Halina’t Magtanim ng Prutas at Gulay (HAPAG) sa Barangay Project,” was previously published by the DILG.

San Jose stated that community food gardens will help to provide food security in addition to backyard gardens in homes.

We are advising our barangays to choose locations for their individual community gardens so that locals may obtain food, she said.

She mentioned that barangay people can choose the crops they will grow in community gardens, which should be at least 20 square meters in size.

San Jose recommended villages without empty lots use alternative gardening techniques such as container gardening, vertical gardening, square foot gardening, hydroponic gardening, aquaponic gardening, or aeroponic gardening.

Additionally, she stated, “We are urging our barangays to cooperate and make requests from their respective city or municipal administrations or with private citizens who own specific vacant lands that can be used to build the barangay community garden.”

She continued by saying that the barangays had to urge the locals to plant fruit-bearing trees in vacant lots or establish home food gardens.

San Jose added that in addition to establishing vegetable gardens, local government units should also include relevant programs and activities to promote nutrition in their individual development and annual investment plans, such as the creation and upkeep of barangay community gardens, to ensure adequate funding for nutritional impact.

Furthermore, she pointed out, barangays with suitable locations are encouraged to plant bamboo.

In a previous statement, the Department of Agriculture said that it offers seedlings to locals who want to grow food in pots or on little plots of land in their backyards.

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