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by: LUCIA F. BROÑIO
DSWD-NCR Regional Director Vicente Gregorio Tomas told the PIA-NCR that the objective of this activity is to "showcase the establishment and development of the communal gardens of the Pantawid Pamilya farmers."
The project is exclusively for Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps beneficiaries, aimed at honing their capabilities in engaging in such kind of sustainable and cooperative project.
The 4Ps farmers have already formed a small group in undertaking this barangay-level vegetable gardening effort earlier.
"The communal gardens also highlights the positive impacts/contributions of their communal garden to themselves with their family and their community in terms of nutrients sufficiency, food security, and community development; and to recognize the tangible efforts of the Pantawid Pamilya farmers in cultivating their communal gardens to further increase their interests in engaging to urban agriculture," Tomas said.
The first place winner will receive P15,000 cash prize; the second place will get P10,000, and the third place, P7,000, respectively.
Likewise, the DSWD-NCR has prepared consolation and special awards amounting to P13,000 cash.
There will also be a People's Choice Awardee who will get P2,000 for garnering the highest number of reactions in social media.
In a briefer sent to the PIA-NCR, the DSWD also explained that the community gardening program is one of the platforms of 4Ps in promoting health, nutrition, and food security and encouraging the beneficiaries to engage in community gardening.
The DSWD added that the 4Ps beneficiaries were encouraged to come up with communal gardens planted with various kinds of vegetables, herbs, and spices where families can have access to fresh, organic, and nutritious food as well as stimulate savings, livelihood, and response to environmental protection.
The contest seeks exceptional village-based vegetable gardens based on the following indicators: the socio-economic impact of the communal garden to the members of the group and their families; the compliance of the communal garden to the standards of the Regional Advisory of Committee Resolution No. 14 Series of 2019 or the standardization on the implementation of the Gulayan sa Barangay of Pantawid Pamilya Farmers in the National Capital Region which include but not limited to the practice of organic culture, production, and variety of edible crops and vegetables, creativity and innovativeness, resourcefulness; and documentation of the Gulayan sa Barangay operations as indicated in Section III of the Guidelines for the 4th Regional Search for Best Communal Garden, the DSWD said.
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