By: Kate Herchelle Salamanca
Water pump donated by Department of Agrarian Reform to Barangay Baliwag in Magallanes.
The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) donated a water pump to Barangay Baliwag in Magallanes that would be functional to the residents for urban gardening and farming.
According to DAR-Cavite provincial agrarian reform program officer James Arthur T. Dubongco, giving and installing water pumps is a portion of DAR's actions to maintain an urban gardening program, a job to volunteer-gardeners of the Baliwag Farmer's Association (BFA). He also stated that helping farmers is essential even when Cavite is under strict quarantine for everyday food that will give strength to Filipinos in times of pandemic.
"This is our way of showing our appreciation to our agrarian reform beneficiaries, who mostly make up the BFA and we are willing to do it even when we are under strict quarantine measures because we need every hand to till the soil and keep food available on the table of every Filipino family, especially at this time of the pandemic", Dubongco stated.
Department of Agrarian Reform is the lead government agency that holds and implements comprehensive and genuine agrarian reform which neutralizes equitable land distribution, ownership, agricultural productivity, and tenurial security for, of with the tillers of the lands towards the improvement of their quality of life.
"Buhay sa Gulay" project started last year when BFA made sufficient land area in their barangay. It was the Cavite version of the country’s first urban vegetable garden city located at the old football field of Saint John Bosco Parish Church in Tondo, Manila.
Dubongco implied that the water pump should give more excitement, joy to the volunteer gardeners because they do not need to go somewhere else to water their vegetable plants. Along with the help from DAR, volunteer farmers were delighted when they launched the "Harvest Festival", sold the vegetables, and earned 20,000 in two weeks.
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