P5M worth vegetable seeds ensure Caraga’s food production continuity
To ensure the availability and sufficient supply of food in Caraga, a total of 687 kilograms (kgs) of various lowland and upland seeds worth P5,492,000 are being distributed to identified vegetable farmers all over the region. The seed distribution is a regular intervention of the Department of Agriculture (DA) – Caraga through the High-Value Crops Development Program (HVCDP) to farmers engaged in vegetable production.
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|August 21-27, 2021
DA – Caraga HVCDP Coordinator Marco Antonio Morido said the activity aims to reduce the production cost of vegetable growers.
the Municipal and City Agricultural Offices who in turn will be distributing it to their pre-identified farmer-recipients.
For the lowland “One factor that vegetable seeds contributes to the allocation per province, high production cost the biggest bulk goes of vegetable growers to Surigao del Sur with are the high price of 200 kg, followed by inputs and one way we Agusan del Sur with 152 can address this is by kg, Agusan del Norte providing them the seeds with 128 kg, Surigao del to lessen their expenses,” Norte with 100 kg, and Morido said. the Province of Dinagat Island with 70 kg. The vegetable seeds have been delivered On the other hand, the starting the second biggest share of the week of July this year to upland vegetable seeds Caraga INFOCUS
