By the Bohol Standard
A collaborative innovation is underway to attain food sufficiency in household level, earn more by commercial quantity production and, hopefully, make the First District as Bohol’s vegetable and fruit basket.
Fit approaches were discussed in a meeting called Thursday night by Rep. Edgar Chatto with the officials of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), consultants of the Agrarian Reform Community Development Project 2 (ARCDP 2) and executives of East-West Company.
The initiative will be patterned after the successful vegetable production system in Balilihan and Catigbian, now raising best varieties in commercial quantity.
The Balilihan-Catigbian experience will be expanded townwide and applied to as many other suited areas in the district.
Provincial Agrarian Reform Officer Johnson Cinco, ARCDP 2 Chief Technical Advisor Adelberto Banaqued and Field Operations Chief Tomas Cabuenos, both former DAR directors, and Manager Robert Acosta of East-West Corporation committed to the success of the undertaking.
The project is also in pursuance to the food security agenda tackled in the recent joint House consultative conference here with the agriculture sector and stakeholders in Bohol.
The gathering served, too, as a congressional public hearing on the proposal to strengthen, by appropriate amendments, the Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act (AFMA).
The highly rewarding vegetable raising in Balilihan has inspired Chatto to replicate it in other areas after its recent introduction also in Antequera.
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