Local farmers of Baranggay Manatal and experts on planting sit together at the building of Manatal Multi-Purpose Cooperative on this 20th day of July.
PICAT MASHAV Professional and Monitoring Mission, the nature of the dialog, highlights the Production of High-Value Vegetables. This project under the Agriculture and Agribusiness Development (AAD) is Off-season Vegetable Production for Tomato and Bitter Gourd using Israeli and Local Technology. Part of the seminar is the demonstration on yielding crops from the soil bed to the field itself, of which will be held at Baranggay Masagana, Pandi, Bulacan with the participation of 12 local farmers.
Mr. Navot Haklay, one of the guest speakers, is a (Philippines-Israel Center for Agriculture Training) PICAT Consultant Mashav Expert on planting tomatoes, bitter gourds, eggplants, onions, cucumbers, and bell peppers. His speech centralizes on the use of technology and variety, which is Israeli and Local, to produce high-value and high-quality vegetables. He even shared that farmers should not rely only in technology and variety alone but also put consideration on water management, crop protection and the use of fertilizer.
Vice Mayor Rachel Santos-Oca also took part on the seminar and expressed her gratitude to the efforts and the people behind this project. She even proposed an invitation to the guest speakers to orient their programs and projects to the leaders of our town, so as to promote and support their advocacy on Agriculture.
The project is made possible thru the efforts of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), Provincial Government of Bulacan (PGB), Provincial Agriculture Office (PAO), Municipal Local Government Unit (MLGU), Bulacan Agriculture State College (BASC), and Manatal Multi-Purpose Cooperative (MMPC).
Attendees of the seminar walk home with "encouragement seed" and "hope-filled seed" planted within their hearts.
There's more and lots in store.
Growing Agriculture!
Growing Pandi!
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