February 13, 2021 A 23-HECTARE land awarded under the government’s Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (Carp) has been slowly turned into a vegetable garden in Tacloban City following the initiative of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR).
DAR-Eastern Visayas Regional Director Ismael Aya-ay also planned to simultaneously conduct Farmer Field School to the 20 members of the New Kawayan-Cabalawan Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Farmers’ Association in the city “to sustain the initial project and eventually spread its area until the entire 23 hectares have been covered.”
The regional office initially utilized a one-hectare lot for the planting of fast yielding crops such as kangkong, pechay, lettuce, okra and pepino “to contribute to the sufficient supply of food in the city and neighboring towns, aside from providing livelihood to the farmers.”