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DA to fortify agri sector against climate change challenges

DA to fortify agri sector against climate change challenges
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PIA - Outstanding women leaders recognized at the Philippine Resilience Awards

PIA - Outstanding women leaders recognized at the Philippine Resilience Awards
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10 women leaders receive Philippine Resilience Awards — Daily Tribune

10 women leaders receive Philippine Resilience Awards — Daily Tribune
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How Are Colleges Planning to Manage Covid This Fall?

How Are Colleges Planning to Manage Covid This Fall?
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EU explores agri development, investments with DA

EU explores agri development, investments with DA
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LGUs urged to adopt edible landscaping

Local government units and the private sector should adopt edible landscaping to ensure sustainable food sufficiency across the country, an official of the Climate Change Commission.

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LGUs, private sector urged to adopt edible landscaping

MANILA - Edible landscaping (EL) may just be the solution to achieve sustainable food security across the country, an official of the Climate Change Commission (CCC) said Sunday. Albert Dela Cruz Sr., Climate Change Commissioner, urged local government units (LGUs) and the private sector to adopt EL as part of their climate action plans following his recent visit to Kalingaprovince to meet with local officials. He noted that the use of technologies developed for food production that are applicable to "household-level" crop production would be advantageous in many ways. "If most of our householders were to utilize the open space within their properties, they could benefit by having their own sources of food even at the smallest scale possible," he said in a news release. Dela Cruz also said that such production systems and technologies can be adopted and practiced with increased enthusiasm "when the basic tenets of landscape design become the guiding principles." EL should not be considered only as crop production because it entails a complex activity of planning, design, implementation, and maintenance, as is similarly done in conventional landscaping, according to Dela Cruz. "EL can be combined with bio-intensive gardening (BIG), which is commonly used in small spaces to increase productivity. BIG is a crop production method designed to maximize the use of space and utilize the resources present in the surrounding environment. The aim is to produce safe and readily available nutritious food for the family and the community while creating an attractive and functional edible landscape and maximizing the use of all resources present in the site," he added. Dela Cruz said initiating EL and gardening could help the private sector utilize mechanisms provided under the Department of Agriculture's Adaptation and Mitigation Initiative in Agriculture (AMIA), where institutional risks could be minimized in the appropriation of funds even as government investments would be protected as well. "Through AMIA, development programs, projects, and approaches could be adjusted to address climate change risks and this would not only benefit those who will invest in this new concept of edible landscaping and gardening but the whole country as well," he said. He explained that sources of food and production centers are relatively far from target populations, which causes additional concern with regard to product quality and increasing health hazards because of the need to add chemicals to prolong the postharvest life of produce. "Depressed communities in urban areas are the most vulnerable to problems of food availability. Within these zones, no tillable land is readily available and food commonly comes from external sources. These increasing concerns about food availability provide good reason for the government and the public to search for the solutions needed to produce safe and readily available food," he said. Currently, Dela Cruz is in the process of authoring and sponsoring a climate change policy for all public sectors to utilize a portion of their public funds to make use of edible landscaping and gardening instead of ornamental plants. EL is an innovative concept that could promote green and edible vegetation and through it, various principles of landscape design are combined with existing technologies for small-scale crop and utilizes vegetables, herbs, and fruit crops as major softscape materials to substitute for the ornamental plants commonly used in conventional landscaping. To date, EL is being intensively promoted in the Philippines and is open for further development to cater for a wider scope of crop production. In his inaugural State of the Nation Address in July 2022, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. said food as "not just a trade commodity but is an existential imperative and one that is moral." "Without (food), people weaken and die; societies come apart. It is more than a livelihood; it is an existential imperative and a moral one. Agriculture damaged and diminished by unfair competition will have a harder time, or will have no prospects at all, of recovering." Marcos said. (PNA) }

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LGUs, private sector urged to adopt edible landscaping

LGUs, private sector urged to adopt edible landscaping
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DA's climate-resilient technologies uplift Tarlac farmers' lives

CLIMATE-RESILIENT PROGRAM. The Department of Agriculture promotes climate-resilient technologies and systems that help a farmers' group in Victoria, Tarlac boost its productivity. Among the interventions were the provision of shallow tube wells and the adoption of Alternate Wetting and Drying technology. (Photo courtesy of the Department of Agriculture Region 3) CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga - The adaptation of climate-resilient agricultural technologies and systems of the Department of Agriculture (DA) has improved the lives of a farmers' group in Victoria, Tarlac. The AMIA Cruz Farmers Association is now reaping the benefits of adapting the DA's Adaptation and Mitigation Initiative in Agriculture (AMIA) program which helps them manage the challenges brought by climate change. Lina Apolonio, the chairperson of group, said on Tuesday they have been harvesting more since their organization was established in 2019 as part of the DA-AMIA's climate-resilient agriculture practices promotion project. She said the DA-AMIA's interventions that boost their group's resiliency against climate change include the provision of shallow tube wells that give them ample supply of water even during the dry season. She said the DA provided them hand tractor and harvester. The DA also taught them Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD), a water-saving technology that farmers can apply to reduce their irrigation water consumption in rice fields without decreasing its yield. Apolonio also said they also followed the rice crop manager advisory service that provides farmers with information geared toward increasing productivity and profitability of rice farming through targeted integrated nutrient and crop management. "Sa hybrid naman, nalaman po namin na 15 kilos sa isang ektarya ay sapat na at sa inbred naman 40 kilos sapat na sa isang ektarya. Nakakatipid na kami ng marami doon (In hybrid, we found out that 15 kilos of seeds is enough for a hectare is enough while in inbred is 40 kilos per hectare, We save a lot from it)," she said in an interview. Through the DA's initiative, she said a hybrid rice derby was done in their area in March last year which showed that hybrid rice farming increased their yield. "Noon traditional, inbred rice lang po talaga kami at masaya na si farmer kung nakakaani siya ng 80 hanggang 90 cavans per hectare for every cropping. Noong inakap po namin ang hybridization sinubukan po namin. At okay naman po 'yung naging resulta ng Hybrid Derby na ginawa rito dahil umani po kami ng 160, nadoble 'yung inaani namin noon noong gumamit kami ng hybrid rice (Before when it was traditional, we only had inbred rice and the farmer was happy if he could harvest 80 to 90 cavans per hectare for every cropping. When we embraced and tried hybridization, the result of the hybrid derby was okay because we harvested 160 cavans, which is double of what we harvested using hybrid rice)," Apolonio said. She noted that their association's assets have reached PHP5 million since their adaption of the DA-AMIA program three years ago. Apolonio said patience and courage to embrace new technologies and systems against climate resiliency were also keys to the success of their organization. (PNA) }

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